FastCopy

A GUI wrapper for Windows' built-in robocopy ~~and xcopy~~.

Features

• Easy to use copy/paste/move/delete dialog, just like your good old explorer, but much faster🚀

• Support the new Windows 11 context menu, and the old windows context menu, with the fluent design icon adapted to Light/Dark theme

  

  

  

  

• Integration with Windows Notification Center: a notification toast will pop up when the copy is finished

  

• Speed graph

  

• Integration with taskbar: a progress bar sync with the one inside the window

  

• Settings

  

• Multi-language support

• English
• 中文

Installation (before publish to Microsoft Store)

1. Go to the Release Page, download the zip file in the Asset section of the latest version
2. Unzip, double-click to open the certificate file ended in .cert, click Install Certificate. Choose Local Machine in the dialog, click Next
3. Choose Place all certificates in the following store, click Browser, and in the dialog choose Trusted root certification authorities
4. Then click Next and finally Finish to install the certificate.
5. Now you can double-click the msix to install the app. 6. In rare situations, you might need to restart explorer.exe to see FastCopy in the right-click context menu*

Usage

1. Using file explorer, select some files/folders, as many as you want >> right click >> move to FastCopy >> select Copy or Move
2. Go to destination folder, right click at empty space >> move to FastCopy >> select Paste

Development

Project structure

FastCopy
    FastCopy\               --- Main project
    FastCopyShellExtension\ --- A dll project for registering the new Windows context menu
    SpeedTest\              --- A speed test project for measuring various copying method under Windows
    UnitTest\               --- Unit test for above projects
    FastCopy.sln            --- The solution file for all the projects

Build pre-requisites

• Visual Studio 2019+, with C++20 support & Universal Windows development workload
• Windows App Sdk, with C++ template
• Additional dependencies per project:
• FastCopy:
  • spdlog
• SpeedTest:
  • abseil

vcpkg is the recommended package manager to handle these dependencies. You can install them with one command, and do no more.

vcpkg install spdlog:x64-windows
vcpkg install abseil:x64-windows

Known issue

• App crash after the window closed (does not affect users, low priority)

Translation

For contribution to translation, there are 2 places to be translated: - The main project, in FastCopy/Strings/<language>/Resources.resw - The shell extension project, in FastCopyShellExtension/CopyOperationNames.cpp CopyOperationNames::GetInstance()

Prototype

Figma link, you may need to ask for permission.