Windows 8 copy and paste progress window improvement

With the simplest tips to help you discover more user-friendly features in Win8, the following small series will show you how to view more information through the Win8 copy and paste progress window.

Unlike previous versions of Windows, the copy-and-paste progress window in Win8 contains more information. Let's take a look at it. Still a traditional copy-and-paste operation, when we paste it, we see the pop-up progress window. Here we can see the progress of the copy, the number of files copied, etc., as well as pause, start and cancel operations.

Ordinary progress window

However, in Win8 we can see that there is a button in the lower left of the "Details" button. After clicking, the progress window is pulled up. More information. It includes the name of the file, the display of the remaining time, the size of the remaining items, and even the rate of replication (the size of the copy per second) on the progress bar.

Expanded Details

With such a detailed replication progress window, we can more accurately determine when a file will be copied, which will make our time more reasonable. For example, if the copied file takes 40 minutes to complete, then we can do other things during this time.

At the same time, we can also check if there is a problem with our disk or mobile hard disk by means of the displayed copy rate.