When comparing PowerToys vs TeraCopy, the Slant community recommends PowerToys for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” PowerToys is ranked 15th while TeraCopy is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose PowerToys is:
Fancy Zones are the places that application windows snap to into. You may choose a pre configured set of zones or create your own ones. You also have to use a shortcut instead of mouse to snap windows into the grid.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Create your own "Fancy Zones"
Fancy Zones are the places that application windows snap to into. You may choose a pre configured set of zones or create your own ones. You also have to use a shortcut instead of mouse to snap windows into the grid.
Pro Native and supported by Microsoft
No need to install third-party tools, and is efficiently integrated with Windows 10.
Pro Free
Pro Includes various helpful features and tools
Not just a tiling window manager, includes search box, keyboard command remapper, and more
Pro Includes Keyboard remapper
Remap your keyboard or well known shortcuts to work with other combinations. Are you used to copy paste on a Mac? Add Alt+C / Alt+V for copy and paste!
Pro Get an OS level color picker
Turn it on or off, it's your choice.
Pro Every Feature can be enabled or disabled to your liking
Pro Windows button shortcut cheat sheet
Press Windows+G to see all shortcuts that can be used with the Windows button.
Pro Easily customizable
Menu to add/edit zones is very intuitive.
Pro 'Wox' launcher is bundled
The popular open source launcher Wox is included in PowerToys and can be toggled on or off. It takes less resources or time at launch than the stand alone version of Wox.
Pro Global Push to talk
Currently experimental.
Pro Faster file deletion
It deletes files much much faster than built in Windows file manager.
Pro Can check files for copy errors
TeraCopy can automatically check/verify the copied files for errors, by calculating their CRC or other checksum/hash value.
Pro Seamless shell integration
Pro Skips badly copied files
TeraCopy skips badly copied files during the copying process, and then displays them at the end of the transfer "Verify" with checksum/hash, so you can see which files to re-copy. See also, OpenHashTab for Windows and DeadHash for Windows, Linux, Android.
Cons
Con Doesn't remember window locations after monitors turn off
If monitors get turned off or are disabled, windows tend to get cluttered when they adjust to the changes, which does make sense, but window locations aren't remembered if the configuration changes back to how it was.
Con Lack of tabbing windows in the same FancyZone
Con Sometimes clashes with 7 zip
From my experience, TeraCopy does not do well in conjunction with 7zips.
It seems to error on some systems when you do a drag-and-drop extract.