Best File Copy Utility ?

By zamarac
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Win Explorer is slow and resource heavy when copying files, frequently resulting in laptop drive overheating, errors and freezes, especially when copying very large files or folders with a lot of small files at once. What's the best file copy utility for Win98SE? It should be light on resources, very fast, allow Pause & Resume. Copying large files from / to network drives in parallel sessions each (similar to multi-segment parallel file downloads by Download Managers) is desired.

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StealMySoda

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Erm. If your having issues with hd overheating, I'm not surprised running such an old system (either that or your running an old OS). Give XP and Vista (especially) transfer a try. But to be honest if your running a 10 year old HD, no wondering its crashing.

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This just reeks of SPAM..

1 post wonder asking about something, giving all the details of what the solution should do.. Let me guess in a day or so there will be another 1 post wonder with an answer, or even the same poster coming back saying they found the perfect solution with a link to software X.

The only thing that seems odd is the win98SE part -- Who and the F is still actively using that? I mean really???

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ckbeme

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Pabs,

I chuckled when I read the topic, but laughed Out Loud when I read your post. No Shxx. Maybe Ctrl C and Ctrl V didn't work on his version of windows 98

course, in a few years I might be the object of ridicule. I'm gonna stay on XP until Msft comes up with something better, and it ain't Vista. Asta La Vista, baby!

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ootput

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This just reeks of SPAM..

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Congrats on paraphrasing a software's description note (this explains the edits made) in the form of a question. For someone who's put up with outdated software (Win98,) he/she seems to require an awful lot of functionality out of a copying tool.

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redvamp128

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Buy a new computer. Seriously!

Basically -- he is running Parallels -- so that tells me he is running Win98SE in a Virtual Environment which in that things are emulated and not real hardware. So I don't even know if any program will upgrade the speed. Possibly may be fixed in a Parallels Update.

I run into similar issues for it being slow-- On my NT4SP6a V-M. Though I have a Windows ME virtual for my 9x and it still is slow- I use virtual box.

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