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By: TK

TK — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:51:51 +0000

Did my previous comment re the DEP incompatible GPL’d supercopier mentioned earlier make it to post?
If not don’t use it as it’s badly written Causing hardware DEP exception just by running and the author is giving PC security-wise suicidal advice in their FAQ i.e. Opt Exporer.exe out of DEP protection entirely!

By: TK

TK — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:40:19 +0000

#19 Having visited the super copier link you suggested and finding the English language selection does not provide English versions of the bulletins on the main page, I read the FAQs only to see something disturbing and blatently sloppy for modern programmers:

“Windows XP SP2 and Athlon 64 : explorer crashes when supercopier starts
Add Windows Explorer to the data execution prevention exceptions list in:
System properties > Advanced tab > Performance > data execution prevention tab.”

No modern shell extension that is GPL’d should force users with Hardware Data Execution Protection enabled to have to opt Explorer.exe OUT from DEP protection! Is this project owned and managed by closet black-hat hackers wishing to ensure Explorer.exe and all shell extensions it hosts are completely vulnerable to any latent or deliberate buffer-over-run conditions to obtain priv’s escalation or other illicite access?

Best Practices demands to avoid ALL applications that cause hardaware DEP exceptions and name and shame the programmers to get with the times re-write their incompatible and possibly errant programs properly. If it causes a DEP exception by default in normal operation then it is NOT fully Windows XP SP2 compatible IMHO.

By: Brittny Dunn

Brittny Dunn — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:19:27 +0000

#8 and #22 both starts off with why do I get the feeling,and number 8 was talking about how he/she thinks 2 and 5 are the same person,Just thought that was funny beacuse I am wondering if 8 and 22 are the same person.

#24 Yes I saw that yesterday,I also had too look twice,lol.

#31 I noticed the same thing with 2 and 4.

#44 Thanks for the link,very useful for me.

Yea I think thats it

By: John Penfold

John Penfold — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:03:02 +0000

Arjan (#9), you post many similar comments of virtually no use on this page, mostly based around your individual operating problem. Other people don’t get these in the frequency you do. I suggest you go away and read up on how to operate your computer. So in a scale from 0-10 I give you 1 point.

And, while I’m having a rant, #13 and many others – you need to get educated on basic spelling, or employ a spell-checker. Your comment is almost wasted as it makes no sense at all.

As for the prog, I’m gonna try it. I hope it’s more than the equivalent of lowering the copy process priority on task manager…

By: Fubar

Fubar — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:56:16 +0000

With all of the reported problems, I can’t use this (I don’t really need it, anyway).

#39, Applian.com has a lot of products that do what you want (most aren’t free, but the demos are).

By: William

William — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:08:42 +0000

After yesterday’s MASSIVE game failure to open, I got this partly as a test and also to see if it helped me. This app I was able to extract. However, I didn’t get an activation method, so I guess it may turn out to be a trial in more than one sense. Thanks again for the alternatives.

By: TK

TK — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:56:09 +0000

#8 if you are only coppying a single 5gig file then you are not doing something that this program addresses. The poor windows copying performance stems from when hundreds or thousands of small to medium sized files are to be coppied in one batch using the built in windows Copy/paste or drag and drop. Windows preallocates resources badly and if any single file fails for any reason the entire batch copy fails at that point. I found I got much better throughput using the DOS “copy” command than using the win32 copy function.

This program initially seemed to do as it says in the blurb, I did spot a bug running on my win98 laptop… I am unable to create a new folder in a master root directory of the FAT32 drives. It was able to create New Folders in drives subdirectories ok. I also got 3 access denied reports on 3 files I am 100% certain were not in use by any other program and when the copy finished a lot of files were missing from the destination folder!

Size of source folder contents was 45.6MB, 160 files in 23 folders
Size of destination folder newly created by SilentCopy is 44.7MB 149 files in 23 folders. Only the 3 “errors” in three files were reported leaving 8 files completely unaccounted for!

MSDOS XCOPY /E performed the same copy without errors reported and without missed files, also obtaining a much higher peak transfer rate. Of course the MSDOS command is restricted by the maximum path length that MSDSOS file access structures use… But thems the breaks.

This days givaway is not a usable prospect in my experience due to it silently losing files and reporting imaginary file access conflicts.

By: mohoncher

mohoncher — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:38:48 +0000

Seems to work pretty good. Uses very little CPU during copying process. Would be nice if it added a context menu item such as copy with.

By: babu

babu — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:38:29 +0000

Will pass on this after reading bladedthoth’s review

By: irrdev

irrdev — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:17:05 +0000

Great Software! Thanks a lot GOTD!