There are many ways to get a file from Point A to Point B on Windows. You can simply drag and drop with the GUI, use PowerShell (the old-school copy command) and also use a handy tool called robocopy.

Double-clicking the file will run the batch file immediately. For more complex copy operations, Windows has another copy command called robocopy.

I know robocopy is faster than the normal copy command for transferring many files over a network because of its multithreading. But for transferring a single file such as a multi-GB video, would ...

Brien walks you through one of Hyper-V's best features: its ability to copy a file directly from a host server to a virtual machine without leveraging the network stack.

3] Use the Robocopy or XCopy command Robocopy (Robust File Copy), is a command-line directory/file replication command. By default, Robocopy will only copy a file if the source and destination ...

I am using a robocopy script to backup a lot of files to an external HDD, some small and some quite large (>1GB). Sometimes robocopy will hang on a larger file...until I press ctrl-c which rather ...