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

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

• Multi-language support
  • English
  • 中文

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

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.