Save time with copy paste shortcuts in Windows

Posted on May 10, 2008 at 5:25 am

Have to copy and paste a lot of files in Windows? However much you try to avoid it, eventually you have to move or copy a bunch of files from different folders and paste them into one folder. Or you might have to copy files from one location on your hard drive to multiple destinations.

Either way, it can be a royal pain because you have to keep navigating to different folders or have 10 different windows open for each location you are copying and pasting from. The most annoying thing is that you can only copy one item at a time. It would be nice if there was some kind of copy paste “buffer” where you could copy 10 items from different and then paste them all at once.

Piky Basket is a freeware Windows utility that I have seriously become addicted to! Piky Basket was created to save you time and effort when working with files and folders in Windows and it does a great job!

It does three things that make working with lots of copying and pasting a lot easier:

Copy, Copy, Copy, Paste, Paste, Paste

Piky Basket allows you to select files/folders into a virtual “basket” from different locations. Once you are done copying, you can paste them all at once to the target folder. It also allows you to selectively paste the files to the target folder.

Piky Basket is very useful in the following situations:

When copying same set of files to different locations
When organizing files on your hard drive
When taking backup of files and folders from different locations
When burning a CD which requires copying of files and folders from various locations

In Windows Explorer, select the files and folders you wish to copy/move. Right click and choose “Piky Basket | Drop into the Basket“. Continue dropping different files and folders in the same manner as you desire.

Now go to the target folder where you wish to copy/move the files. Right click on the white area and choose “Piky Basket | Copy All” or “Piky Basket | Move All“. This action will copy/move all the files in the basket to the target folder.

Copy File Paths to Clipboard

By default in Windows, you can only copy the folder path to a file, but we often need to copy and paste the entire path. For example, if I am browsing files in My Documents\My Pictures and I want to copy the path to one of photos, I have to copy the folder path from the address bar and then append the file name to the end of it in a text editor.

With Piky Basket, you can get the file paths of the selected files/folders in Windows Explorer. Another cool thing is if you are copying the file paths from a mapped network drive, Piky Basket will prompt you if the paths must be in Universal Naming Convention (UNC) format (eg. \\servername\sharename\foldername ). It is a quick way to allow your coworker to access the files\folders over the network.

Command Prompt Anywhere

If you work with Windows command prompt (cmd.exe or command.com) very often, then you will really like this feature.

You can launch the Command Prompt from a selected folder in Windows Explorer with the current directory set to the selected folder.

Overall, it’s a great utility program for Windows if you find yourself copying and pasting a lot in Windows! So if you’re looking for how to copy and paste in Windows, this tool is for you! Enjoy!

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6 Responses to “Save time with copy paste shortcuts in Windows”

Vaibhav said on : May 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am

this seems like to be a great software…
I need to check If it could work with the words and images inline…

Colin said on : May 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm

i wanna know it will cause system error or not when i uninstall the utility

Ajay said on : May 11th, 2008 at 12:31 am

very good tip.

Abhijeet from Jeet Blog said on : May 11th, 2008 at 4:52 am

Nice Find Aseem, will certainly help in using windows more productively. Stumbled

Abhijeet from Jeet Blog said on : May 11th, 2008 at 4:53 am

By the way, I sent you a reply to email. You haven’t checked it yet I suppose

akishore said on : May 11th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

Vaibhav, let me know if it does work with words and image inline! I think it should.

Colin, it won’t cause any system error when you uninstall it. I uninstalled it from my test system and everything was fine.

Ajay, thanks! Your comments keep going to spam! I don’t know why!

Abhijeet, thanks for the stumble! I just got back from my trip, so will be getting to you soon!