FavesSoft History

Site Changes

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eliminated full size screen shot distortion.

added thumbnails to make site more dial-up friendly.

improved Setup programs for most utilities.

updated Downloads Page with Licence dependencies for each utility.

removed donate buttons: a single $10 Faves License enables all utilities.

FavesSA Changes

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FavesSA 2.1

updated components used internally.

FavesSA 2.0

added Trial functionality.

FavesSA 1.7

added Places Bar to Open and Save Dialogs.

FavesSA 1.6

spruced up Popup Menu.

FavesSA 1.51

changed SaveAS dialog to use lower case for file extensions.

FavesSA 1.5

added Horizontal Scrollbar to Listbox.

FavesSA 1.4

added Opacity Slider.

FavesSA 1.35

minor tweaks.

FavesSA 1.3

added commands to Popup Menu.

pressing Enter key when listbox has the focus launches selected items.

FavesSA 1.25

cut & paste bug fixes.

FavesSA 1.1

added commands to open and save .fsa Faves sets.

launch and filename transfer on .fsa file double click using file type association.

FavesSA 1.0

introducing Faves Stand Alone Verson 1.0

No .NET Required!!

Faves Changes

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Faves 2.3

changed button images.

Faves 2.2

added buttons for Computer, Documents, Recycle Bin and About dialog.
Pressing F1 or clicking About Button brings up About dialog.

Faves 2.1

updated components used internally.

Faves 2.02

updated Setup to check for .NET 2.0 before installing.

on first run Faves now puts the root of the System Drive
in the list instead of assuming it is "C:\".

Faves 2.01

added code in the licensed version to default to FreeCommander.exe
as the File Manager if it exists on the system partition.

Faves 2.0

added Window Toggle Hotkey to Licensed Version.
Window Transparency Setting saved between runs.
Streamlined License Handling.

Faves 1.9

added License Command to Tray Icon Menu.

Faves 1.82

added Tooltips to options.

Faves 1.81

added "use settings once" option to clear other options
automatically after use. Fixed an option handling error.

Faves 1.8

added "1 Deep" and "FM Overlap" options. 1 Deep
tells Faves to open the first level of subfolders
of a selected folder instead of the folder itself.

FM Overlap loads 2 instances of the user's File Manager
program with the middle folder selection common to both
(3 folders must be the only selections for this to be invoked.)

Faves 1.75

added .fav file association and filename transfer to
the first running instance of faves. This allows
loading another .fav file via double-click or by
opening the file as a "Fave" from the Faves list.

Faves 1.7

added support for multiple Faves sets via .fav files.

Faves 1.3 - Faves Free Edition

made Faves file compatible with Full Featured Edition.
On upgrade Faves Full Featured Edition will import Faves
created by Faves Free.

MRO Changes

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MRO 3.6

enhanced error catching routines.

MRO 3.5

added Open List in Faves and Open List in FavesSA commands.

MRO 3.1

added Places Bar to Save Dialog

MRO 3.0

added Export List command to export the folder list in
.fav, .fsa or .txt file format.

MRO 2.6

trim list after dead folders removed.. allowing it to fill to capacity.

MRO 2.5

non-existent folders are pruned from the list at popup.

MRO 2.4

added Trial functionality.

MRO 2.35

monitor shutdown optimizations.

MRO 2.3

optimized monitor to reduce CPU load when Explorer is the active window.

selecting a folder from the list moves it to the front of the queue.


MRO 2.2

added readme file access to About Command.

MRO 2.1

changed default double-click handler to About Command.

MRO 2.0

enhanced MRO 2 to handle Folder paths longer than 64 characters in XP and Vista.

replaced the Shell Extension with a background process to
automatically monitor Explorer Folder opens.