You drag the box into place and click OK, apparently, and from then on, the dialog appears in that spot.

It has a neat feature that displayed the copying tool's progress dialog on a desktop image. But the program offers a Configuration sheet that let us set various options, including making it Explorer's default copying utility, writing to a log file, updates, and always on top. Clicking this icon produced a pop-up message advising us that ExtremeCopy lacks a standard user interface but instead runs from context menus, just like the built-in Windows utility. We tried it in 64-bit Windows Home Premium SP1.ĮxtremeCopy Free runs from context menus in Explorer, once you've configured its options, but it also places an icon on the desktop, if you don't deselect the option. ExtremeCopy Free comes in specific downloads for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. The standard version is free for personal and home use, though a licensed Pro version offers some extra features for commercial users. How much faster? Up to eight times faster, according to Easersoft, makers of ExtremeCopy Free, which optimizes copying speed based on your machine's resources. Copying speed in Windows is mostly determined by your system's resources, but that's the point: by maximizing the copying according to your system's capabilities, it's possible to copy even very large files faster than Windows can. Since Windows is meant to be all things to most people, it leaves room for improvement on many fronts, such as copying files.

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