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F-ERASE..........Hard Drive Utility that cleans out a hard drive of unneeded files (logs, cache files, etc.) .....(free).....GO THERE!
FABER TOYS.......... System utility, mainly developed for power users who want to know what's going on in their Personal Computer. It may also be used by programmers as a tool for tracking their applications. The goal is to create an application running on most PC configurations (see system requirements), that use an FPL (Fast Property Load) technology to speed up the recovery of information on slow computers. All information about the program is saved in a configuration file located in the installation directory; this means that no information is saved into the Registry.....(free).....GO THERE!
FACTBYTES..........Cross a search engine with an encyclopedia.....(free).....GO THERE!
FAIR USE 4WM..........If you can't transfer legally purchased music and videos to your iPod, Sony PSP because of the DRM protection of Windows Media files, here comes free software for Windows called FairUse4WM. FairUse4WM can't crack DRM license. You must have VALID license files on your harddrive and be able to play the DRM protected files without restrictions. FairUse4WM is intended to be used to make fair-use backups only. Please do not abuse this rule. .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAJO XP FILE SECURITY EXTENSION..........Allows a user of Windows XP Home to view and change the access rights on file system objects of NTFS file systems. The extension provides the security tab known from Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and WIndows XP Pro at the property page of file system objects. For faster access it adds an additional menu item to the context menu of such objects (optional). .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAKE ANTI-SPYWARE PROGRAMS..........All anti-spyware programs are not as they seem. According to the author, "Some of the products listed on this page simply do not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection. Others may use unfair, deceptive, high pressure sales tactics and false positives to scare up sales from gullible, confused users. A very few of these products are either associated with known distributors of spyware/adware or have been known to install spyware/adware themselves".....(free).....GO THERE!
FAKE PROGRESS BAR..........Trivial, but fun.... A Fake Progress dialog for your desktop. Ever wanted your computer to look busy so that you could do something else? Read the paper perhaps? Stare into space? Features include fully cutomizable titles, icons, speed and progress messages. It can also disable your screensaver .....(free).....GO THERE!
FALCON FREE MEMORY..........Before you play a game or run an app, you can use this tool to free up the memory and result in slightly faster game or application performance. This tool also saves you the need to reboot when your system is low in resources (Go to Downloads, My Creations).....(free).....GO THERE!
FASHION YOUR FIREFOX..........You spend more time online than on the road, but you probably think more about avoiding traffic than enjoying the best of the Web. So, why not customize your Firefox for the things you really love to do? Take your browser from simple to spectacular. Firefox add-ons are little extras that allow you to add a personal touch to your browser. Select your favorites from the categories below to accessorize your Web .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST EXPLORER..........Add, Customize and Clean Up Context Menu Items of Files and Folders/ This handy utility allows you to manage context menus items. Fast Explorer handles both static and dynamic context menu items and can assist with even more... With Fast Explorer you can create new context menu items, submenus (cascaded menus), dividers, and optionally specify menu bitmaps and hint text. For ultimate control over dynamic context menu items added from within Fast Explorer you can define your own look and feel using the custom-drawing feature. Fast Explorer-driven context menu items can be associated with any file type registered in Windows shell, including the wide range of predefined shell objects.....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST FOLDER.......... FastFolder by BB is a background program which allows quick access to any of eight pre-selected folders from the system tray. It provides a perfect way to navigate directories without requiring My Computer. The code in this program is designed to use minimum system resources. It is written in VB6, requiring only one active X, St_vb6.ocx, to be used in addition to the normal runtime libraries. All the files are in the same directory for easy drag and drop installation and removal. There are no embedded images, text or OLE functions to preserve the system memory. This program is a FREE full working version. There are NO registry changes or secret files made.....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST FONT PREVIEW..........Font manager for Windows. It contains only basic functions for font management - very fast preview both uninstalled or installed fonts by folder from drives,CD's or DVD's, and quick one - click font installing. Fast font preview supports management with True Type and Open Type fonts with (*.ttf ) extension, which are recently used font types.Raster,Vector and PostScript Type1 (Adobe) fonts .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST KAKE..........FastKake will create a set of handy and useful shortcuts which will give you full control of your Windows operating system and simplify your computing life. There will be shortcuts to quickly shutdown/reboot/standby/hibernate the computer, lock the desktop or logoff the current user. There will also be shortcuts to empty the recycle bin, close all windows, quickly compose and send an email, launch default browser, launch default email client, open/close your cd drive, disable/enable your screensaver, add/remove programs, device manager, search for files and folders, launch word, excel, powerpoint, notepad, etc. etc. FastKake is small in size (120kb), requires no installation and does not modify your system .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST NAV KEYS.......... Too fast for your own keyboard? Now your can beat Windows' keyboard buffer with FastNavKeys! Speed up the navigation keys (or any other keys)......(free).....GO THERE!
FAST RESOLVER..........FastResolver is a small utility that resolves multiple host names into IP addresses and vice versa. You can simply type the list of IP addresses or host name that you want to resolve, or alternatively, you can specify IP addresses range that you want to scan. For local network, FastResolver also allows you to get the MAC address of all IP addresses that you scan. FastResolver is a multithreaded application, so it can resolve dozens of addresses within a few seconds .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST SHUTDOWN..........With one click you can turn the computer off or lock it. .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAST USE.......... FastUse Version 5 will give you fast access to the 600 programs most often used, just by moving the pointer of your mouse over a small icon located in the system-tray (Hard to find on the page. But go to Downloads, then scroll down the resulting page).....(free).....GO THERE!
FASTER THAN EVER ..........Want a better way to access your favorite applications, files, folders or web sites? With Faster Than Ever (FTE) you will never lose time again while browsing through folders or menus in search of them .....(free).....GO THERE!
FASTERFOX..........Fasterfox - performance and network tweaks for Firefox. Prefetch Links, Tweak Network, More.....(free).....GO THERE!
FASTSTONE CAPTURE.......... FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.....(free).....GO THERE!
FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER..........An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more .....(free).....GO THERE!
FAT 32 FORMAT..........Fast format Fat32 disks more than 32 gigs in size. XP's formatting tool won't let you format anything larger than 32 gigs but this little tool will. Note that the 32GB limit is a limit of the formatter in Windows XP. FAT32 itself should be OK to 2TB,.....(free).....GO THERE!
FATAL EXCEPTION DECODER..........Get a fatal exception in Windows? Bring it to this site to find out what it means.....(free).....GO THERE!
FAV SEARCH.......... Are your Internet Explorer Favorites getting out of hand? Tired of scrolling up and down that menu searching aimlessly for that elusive Favorite you know you saved last month? Let FavSearch find it for you.....(free).....GO THERE!
FBACKUP..........FBackup is a free backup software for both personal and commercial use. It protects your important data by backing it up automatically to any USB/Firewire device, local or network location. The backed up data can be either compressed (using standard zip compression) or an exact copy of the original files .....(free).....GO THERE!
FC64..........FC64 is a low level Commodore C64 emulator written in AS3 and licensed under the GPL .....(free).....GO THERE!
FCAU.......... FCAU.exe is a little program to monitor the number of files in a maximum of 20 directories and execute an action if that number is equal or greater than the limit you specified (Scroll down the page to find it).....(free).....GO THERE!
FESTIVAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM..........Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at CSTR. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general control.....(free).....GO THERE!
FFT..........Lists the most recently modified files in a selected folder. For example, after a Windows startup, this program is useful to list the modified files in a system folder. Select a folder and a time (1 hour by default) and run search with "Find button". The list of the found files is sorted by folder name and by time. A double-click in the listing selects the current line and opens the folder containing the name of the file. This program requires the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or higher.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE AND WEB PAGE DOWNLOADER..........Command line utility to automate the download of files and web pages within programs, batch files or scripts (Go to Free Downloads).....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE ANNOUNCE.......... Notifies users of shared directories when files are added, deleted, or moved in share.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE BOX EXTENDER..........FileBox enhances Windows by adding several advanced functions to the standard Open File and Save File dialog boxes. FileBox adds two handy buttons to these standard dialogs. These appear on the right side of the Windows dialog box title bars. These buttons appear next to the minimize, restore, and maximize buttons with which you're probably already familiar. FileBox can also forcibly resize the standard Windows file management dialog boxes so they're bigger, and thus easier to use if you've got lots of files in a folder through which you need to look. FileBox eXtender has a nifty option to display these buttons on Windows Explorer folders too, and this can greatly speed up navigation through today's huge hard disks.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE C..........Filename Completion for DOS .....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE CLONE..........Instead of copying a file to another folder or directory, FileClone prompts for the name of the file to be copied and then does it from the right click context menu in Windows Explorer. FileClone easily makes a copy of a selected file with a different filename.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE COMMANDER.......... File Commander helps you save time when organizing the files on your disk. If you find that you're moving, copying, or deleting the same files over and over, you can use File Commander to make a simple command that does it for you. When you run the command, your files will be moved, copied, or deleted just as if you'd done it yourself. File Commander includes a Wizard for creating new commands, with easy step-by-step instructions. There are no scripts to write and no technical jargon to understand.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE COMPARE.......... This plain text file comparison utility displays a pair of files side-by-side in a vertically-split display, so that the differences between them are apparent. There are a number of customisation options, some of which make it especially suitable for comparing program source code written in the Natural ® language. But it is not limited to this purpose, and will handle any pair of text files, whether source code or data. It also compares the text portion of binary files such as spreadsheets and word processor documents, which you can import via Paste buttons on the front panel. It is possible to edit both files and save the results, with easy ways to merge selected changes between both sides of the comparison window.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE ENGINEER..........With FileEngineer you can do several things with files. You can quickly find a certain string in files. You can also replace the found string with another string. You can quickly rename a bunch of files and give them a uniform name with numbering.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE EXTENSION CHANGER.......... File Extension Changer makes it very easy to change the extension(s) of single or multiple files. Main features: By integrating in file's context menu, File Extension Changer makes it very easy to change a file's extension. By integrating in folder's context menu, extensions of multiple files can be changed in one go. In normal mode too, files & folders can be added using drag & drop and extensions of multiple files even from different folders can be changed in seconds. Advanced Mode features include conditional changing of extensions in which the user can provide some conditions on the basis of which extensions are changed. Also this list can be saved as a file for later use. New path for files can be provided to move all the renamed files to the new folder. Batch file can be created to UNDO any changes done. Moreover, batch or REDO file can be created for the rename process by which the entire renaming can be redone. Have record of what you do with log files that can be created for each session to log the renaming activities. Context menu entries can be added or removed easily using Registry Manager included with File Extension Changer. Portable version also available. Don't want another program in your start menu or simply want to put File Extension Changer on your USB drive. Now you can. Shell integration is still achievable using Registry Manager.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE EXTENSION SEEKER..........Search out files across the web based on their extensions......(free).....GO THERE!
FILE GUARD.......... FileGuard monitors a selected folder (and subfolders) for changes. FileGuard will monitor for name changes, size changes, attribute changes, time changes and more. The program runs in the background and displays all directory changes in the windows and allows for saving of the changes to a file.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE HAMSTER..........Automatically create incremental backups whenever a file is modified. FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified. It also enables you to store notes about the changes that have been made, allowing you to quickly locate a specific revision or provide a detailed account of the work you've done on a project.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE INFORMATION.......... A free utility to display internal file information in the Windows Explorer context menu. Now includes file version information.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE LINK.......... Unix users know and love it, now Windows users have the ability to give a single file multiple names. If you have the existing file C:\DOCS\FILE.DOC and execute the command FileLink C:\MEMO\ANOTHER.DOC C:\DOCS\FILE.DOC the data of the file will exist only once, but it is accessible in 2 directories using 2 different names. Changes to the contents of one file affect both. Your disk-drive must be formatted using NTFS 5 or higher (Win2000 and higher) (Go to Products link).....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE MAP..........FileMap by BB uses one of the most basic method of determining which files have been added or removed from your computer, by comparing before and after lists. Lists can be created at any time and are stored in a folder named FILEMAP-BY-BB created in the directory being monitored, either the C:\ root, the Windows or the System directories. Can also be configured to run at boot.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE MENU TOOLS..........Customize the context menu of the Windows Explorer. Add a large number of built in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders. Add customized commands which let you run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types. Configure the Send To submenu. Enable or disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE MENU.......... Add or Delete an entry for the right click menu for files.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE MESS..........FileMess is a neat utility, which moves files from one folder to another using pattern matching (Go to WTL).....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE MOVER.......... FileMover works automatically, searching a source folder every 15 minutes. for files and moving them to your destination folder. FileMover can also clean the filenames of unwanted text while moving them. Great for keeping your shared folder in P2P applications empty to free up resources while your away! Also for cleaning the filenames of your digital camera pictures! Many other uses, limited only by your imagination.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE PROTECTOR..........Protects any type of file by encrypting the content .....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE SAVVY..........FileSavvy provide a graphical way to automate common file managment tasks. If you are tired of repetitive jobs like backing up, preparing files for development builds, gathering files for distribution or any other complex yet reproducible set of file management then FileSavvy may just make your life a little bit easier .....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE SEARCH..........This application allows to search files on your computer fast using rules very similar to those are used in popular Internet search engines. It is possible not only list words or parts of words you wish to find in searched files, but to list which words or phrases are MUST, and which are MUST NOT be present. Also, hexadecimal and OEM search allowed .....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE SHIELD..........A file protecting software. See of this as a password protected box that can contain your files. You need to dustribute only the box, and every person trying to open the box needs a password. You can even set expiry dates. Most of all, this application needs no installation. Neither on the protectors machine, nor on the viewers machine. Go to downloads .....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE SORT..........Sorts the files in any folder by moving them to the directory you choose based on your specs. Highly configurable.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE TARGETS.......... FileTargets is a shell context menu extension that adds a sub-menu with all your favorite folder names to the context-menu of all files and folders in your system so you can copy/move selected files to pre-defined, most used folders with the click of a mouse. FileTargets menu is similar to the standard SendTo menu but is much more advanced since it allows you to create subgroups, automatically add new folders, copy file path names and much more.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE TO MAIL.......... Send files from Windows Explorer with two mouse clicks.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE TYPE MANAGER.......... File Type Manager is a Windows utility program that allows you to manage Windows file types, actions and shell extensions. It offers far more functionality than similar programs or the built-in Windows tool. Apart from that it is one of the only programs available that allows you to manage shell extensions.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE TYPES MAN.......... FileTypesMan is an alternative to the 'File Types' tab in the 'Folder Options' of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more. FileTypesMan also allows you to easily edit the properties and flags of each file type, as well as it allows you to add, edit, and remove actions in a file type.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILE2MAIL..........Send files from Windows Explorer with two mouse clicks .....(free).....GO THERE!
FILEDRAG 3..........When you drag an unknown file to this program it shows file information. Like you drag file "prog.vbp" and program shows that it's a Visual Basic Project. This program knows 3371 file extensions.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILEUPDATES.NET..........New software site. Worth a look. Lots of stuff.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILEZILLA.......... FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client for Windows with a lot of features.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILSECLAB PERSONAL FIREWALL..........Block attacks from worms, viruses, and trojans. Double filter system provides double-layer protection. User rules for customized configs.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILTER.......... The Filter is the ultimate iTunes + iPod companion. Fill your iPod with new playlists that refresh daily, create instant mixes and discover new music based on the music you love - download The Filter today for free.....(free).....GO THERE!
FILZIP..........Shell City's new favorite unzipping program. Great Explorer interface. Does the job. Easy to use.....(free).....GO THERE!
FINCH TV..........Heh! Wasn't going to list this, but.... Might be of interest... What can we do with it? Geospiza’s FinchTV is the popular way to view DNA sequence traces on Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, and Solaris. FinchTV started as the only chromatogram viewer that can display an entire trace in a scalable multipane view. Now it leads again with raw data views, BLAST searching and the ability to reverse complement sequences and traces.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND AND RUN ROBOT..........Find and Run Robot is a program for keyboard maniacs - it helps you rapidly find programs or documents from within the depths of the start menu (or other directories). One keypress launches the utility - then just start typing the first letters of the application you want to launch. As you type the best matches are shown - just hit the number to launch the associated program. (From our friends over at Donation Coder).....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND AS YOU TYPE FOR INTERNET EXPLORER.......... Convenient method of searching in a document: every time you type text in the search box it automatically searches the document. You don't need to click Find or do anything else, just type, and it'll search. This type of search is sometimes called "look ahead search".....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND AS YOU TYPE.......... Find As You Type for Internet Explorer adds a toolbar to Internet Explorer where you can type search terms, and it will find them, as you type. .....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND EXE..........Locate potential viruses and worms hiding in non-executable files (Go to Downloads).....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND FAVORITES.......... Find Favorites allows you to quickly find a link in the sometimes confusing folder which Internet Explorer keeps it's bookmarks (URL files). Just type a word on the find edit box and Find Favorites will quickly display any matching links (searching the contents of the file by name, address and folder)......(free).....GO THERE!
FIND MAC ADDRESS..........This tool is an easy way to find the MAC address of a local or remote computer on the network. Select the target and method and find the MAC address of a remote computer on the network. The software can not only find the MAC address of a computer, but also detect the manufacturer of its network card. Free for non-commercial use.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND MEMORY LEAKS.......... A tutorial and bit of reusable code that you can use in all your projects to track all your memory leaks.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND MORE..........Integrated search function for Windows. Three times faster than the Windows search and offers smart search options .....(free).....GO THERE!
FIND MY CREDIT CARD..........Find My Credit Card software is intended to show you private info located on your machine, which you may not know of, and erase redundant information posing hazard to your security (Go to Products).....(free).....GO THERE!
FINDER..........Finder is more than what the name implies, it not only finds, it also replaces. This powerful utility lets you search and replace text on your computer in any file, in groups of files, and even wildcard searches. You can apply changes to large groups of files at one go, or use optional confirmation if you need to be more selective. This utility is very usefull especially for webmasters and programmers who have to make changes to large number of files. It will save you lots of time .....(free).....GO THERE!
FINDING REGISTRY KEYS THE EASY WAY IN VISTA OR XP..........You've seen your share of registry hacks. Here's how you can easily find registry keys, and even create a shortcut or hotkey to immediately drill down to the correct key by copying it to the clipboard. Thanks to The HowToGeek! .....(free).....GO THERE!
FINE RECOVERY..........Data recovery tool. Undelete files. Recover deleted hard drive. Restore folders. FineRecovery is a free and powerful utility to restore deleted files from hard disk. Typical hard drive can be scanned for recoverable files within minutes.....(free).....GO THERE!
FINGER PRINT.......... A utility to see if any files in one or more directories have been created, deleted, or changed since the last scan. It's useful for checking if a program, e.g. viruses and trojans, has changed your all-important Windows files (this is similar to such security software as Tripwire). The use of MD5 checksums guarantee detection of file changes. FingerPrint can also be used to find duplicate files, search for files with a specific MD5 value, and save MD5 values to file (and compare with). A command line version is also included.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIRE FTP.......... FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREDOODLE..........Add a whiteboard to every web page you visit using the Firefox Browser. This is great for reviews, jotting ideas, or just goofing off. You can also mark your place on looooong pages so if you need to leave and come back, you can easily pick up where you left off. .....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREFOX 3 -- 8 UNTOLD SECRETS..........With the ability to drastically expand Firefox functions using plug-in extensions and Greasemonkey scripts, many of Firefox 3's built-in features are overlooked. Here are eight handy things you can do with Firefox, ranging from tiny tweaks to hugely powerful capabilities, all with nary an extension to install .....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREFOX FACTS..........Firefox tips, tricks, reviews and news .....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREFOX PORTABLE..........Your browser, your way... in your pocket. Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (formerly Portable Firefox) is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREFOX PRIVACY TOOLBAR..........Complete set of privacy and security tools with Easy Access, providing Instant Security Controls with a mouse click. No more digging in preferences menus or editing complicated configuration screens. Just point to the toolbar, select the privacy and security options you require, from light to paranoid, and surf.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREHOLE..........Bypass outbound firewall control.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIRELOG XP.......... This is a simple program for people using the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) in Windows XP. It will read the log file and show you who is trying to get into your computer, and through which ports. The data can be filtered to include/exclude protocols, connection types, and TCP flags. It includes connections to on-line resources to give you more information on what a specific port is for and how it may be being exploited (Go to Freeware).....(free).....GO THERE!
FIRESTARTER..........According to the developer, "Some Win32 (Windows 95/98 or NT4) programs I've used seem to occupy far more of the task bar than they really warrant - the worst offender was Hummingbird's eXceed X server. While it was a great bit of software, it (at least the version I used) placed one icon there for each open window and one extra one, that I virtually never touched, for the server itself. I wrote this little utility to help give me back some of the task bar: you give it a command line and it "hides" all the icons associated with that program in one small entry in the system tray. A click on this icon brings back all those task bar icons, and another click hides them again".....(free).....GO THERE!
FIREWALL BUILDER.......... Firewall Builder is a GUI firewall configuration and management tool that supports iptables (netfilter), ipfilter, pf, ipfw, Cisco PIX (FWSM, ASA) and Cisco routers extended access lists. Firewall Builder uses an object-oriented approach, it helps administrator maintain a database of network objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIVE QUICK WINDOWS TIPS..........Five quick Windows tips that are very useful and probably not known to anyone reading this article. 1. Start Internet Explorer 7 without add-ons, 2. Rename Recycle Bin, 3. Display all Symbols in System Tray, 4. Make sure all extensions for all file types are always shown, 5. Show all Devices in Device Manager.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIX LINKS.......... FixLinks is a unique tool which allows you to check and to repair broken URLs in HTML files automatically. You can use FixLinks to check and to prepare a web site for uploading to the Internet as well as to get rid of links leading to non-existing files. There are much more uses for FixLinks. Using FixLinks You can rename or move folders containing linked files and then restore the links to them without any manual work. You can also restore links between separate pages saved from the Internet (especially if they were saved using Microsoft Internet Explorer's "Save as..." function). FixLinks uses a wizard-style interface which helps you to go through the process of repairing in the easiest way. FixLinks is a very flexible tool with a variety of options that allow you to customize the process of fixation to fit your needs the best.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIX MY XP..........A site we like -- plenty of power tweaks.....(free).....GO THERE!
FIXED RUN DIALOG.......... Fixed Run Dialog is a minimal enhancement to your Windows desktop. It will add a 'command box' that can be always on top or not. It acts just like the Run Dialog, which you would get by clicking 'Start > Run...'. Fixed Run Dialog can handle all commands that you normally enter in the Windows Run Dialog, plus more! You can define custom commands for your frequently used applications, documents, folders or websites. You can set the Fixed Run Dialog command box to be transparent (customizable level of transparency) to make it less obtrusive. The command box is quickly accessed by pressing a (customizable) global hotkey like CTRL+SHIFT+R or WIN+A for example. This application is aimed at people like me who don't like to use their mouse so much. The application is fully customizable to suit your personal needs.....(free).....GO THERE!
FLAC.......... FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see links to the right for supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file. FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, "unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. There are build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.....(free).....GO THERE!
FLASH EXPLORER..........Extract graphics and sound from Flash files. Export to jpg or png and mp3 .....(free).....GO THERE!
FLASH FOLDER.......... FlashFolder extends the file-related common dialogs (e.g. open/save dialog) seen in most Windows programs. A small toolbar docks onto these dialogs that provides menus for quick access to recently-used folders, favorite folders and more.....(free).....GO THERE!
FLASH MOVIE EXTRACT PILOT.......... Extracts all cached flash movies and plays them.....(free).....GO THERE!
FLASH MUTE..........FlashMute is a tool which allows you to mute/unmute Flash Movies loaded in a browser exclusively, or alternatively all sounds produced by the browser .....(free).....GO THERE!
FLASH PLAYER SETTINGS MANAGER.......... Use this panel to specify storage settings for any or all of the websites that have requested permission to use your camera or microphone or to store information on your computer. The list of Visited Websites displays the following information for each website: The name of the website, The amount of disk space the website has used to store information on your computer, The maximum amount of disk space the website can use before requesting additional space, the privacy setting you have specified for the website. In this panel, you can change storage settings for a website or delete the website so that, if you visit it again, it will use your global settings instead of any individual settings you may have set. You can also delete all sites, which erases any information that may have already been stored on your computer. .....(free).....GO THERE!
FLASH SAVER..........Makes screensavers out of flash files. You load a .swf file and it creates an .scr of it. It handles mouse-movements and keystrokes for you. (In German).....(free).....GO THERE!