FasterFiles

Change Log

On this page, you can find the history of changes made to the program FasterFiles.

• Tab Order (2026-03-16): Correction of the order in which you can jump from control to control using the tab key in the dialogs "HotKey", "Action Lists" and "Actions".
• Usage of the Tab Key (2026-03-14): In the text fields of the actions "Create Text File" and "Copy Text to Clipboard", the tabulator key can now be used to enter a tab character. In the other fields of the actions where the tab character does not make any sense (for example in file or folder lists), the tab key can be used to jump to the next control instead. To jump to the next control from the two text fields with the tab input possibility using the keyboard, you can hold down the CTRL key while pressing the TAB key.
• Language Settings (2026-03-13): Display of the language in the current application language as a mouseover over the language name in the national language.
• Storage of Column Widths (2026-01-05): The column widths of the action list are now saved when the "Save window size and window position" option is enabled.
• Improved Handling of Multi-Screen High DPI Environments (2025-09-09): Improved handling (saving, loading and positioning) of window size settings (window size and position) on systems with multiple high-DPI monitors of different sizes and resolutions.
• Improved Handling of invalid Window Size Settings (2025-09-03): When loading window size settings, now a check is made to see whether the stored window position and window size settings match the current screen size. This prevents the window from being positioned outside the visible area when loading the settings, for example if the settings were saved on a larger screen than the current one.
• Individual Splash Screen (2025-07-12): The tab "System Integration" of the Settings Dialog (Settings > System Integration) now contains an option to enable and disable the splash screen that appears at program startup.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2025-05-30): The dialogs "Settings", "Info", "HotKey Editor", "Action List Editor", "Action Editor", "Action List Check" and "Automatic Check at Startup" can now be closed using the ESC key.
• Dialog for Deleting Settings (2025-04-15): The function "Delete Settings" now displays a dialog in which all startup settings, language settings, Hot Keys, Action Lists, keys and other settings files stored on the respective computer are listed and can this way be managed and deleted individually. Previously, when using this function, all files found were deleted directly.
• Settings Reset now with Inquiry (2025-03-29): The function "Reset Settings" now only resets the settings after a warning message has been confirmed. Previously an immediate reset took place.
• Open or Copy Links (2025-02-17): All linked websites can now also be opened via the context menu using the right mouse button (item "Open Link") or copied to the clipboard as a URL (item "Copy Link"). Left-clicking on a link will still open it in your default browser as before. Using the context menu and the new copy function, the URL can now also be used for other purposes.
• Sorting of Actions (2025-01-06): Actions in the action lists can now be sorted alphabetically in ascending or descending order using the column header. In order to avoid unwanted sorting, the sorting must additionally be confirmed via a dialog.
• Windows System Integration Unicode Support (2024-12-02): Improved Unicode support for the Windows system integration, for example regarding user names and resulting user directories for storing settings that contain Unicode characters.
• Error Messages in the Script Control (2024-09-13): With the new parameter "errmsg" you can determine whether error messages should be displayed in the batch operation of FasterFiles or not. With "errmsg=1" the error messages are displayed normally, with "errmsg=0" the error messages are suppressed. The default value is "1".
• Definition of a Target Directory in the Script Control (2024-09-10): The "target directory" known from the graphical user interface can now also be used via the batch version of FasterFiles. For this purpose, the new parameter "targetdir" is available, with which you can specify any target directory for calling up with an action list.
• HotKey files (FFHK) in the Script Control (2024-09-09): In addition to FFAL files (pure action lists), you can now also use FFHK files (HotKey configurations) with the batch version of FasterFiles in order to execute the action lists they contain. There are two different syntaxes available for the call: Either "HotKeyFile.ffhk hk=HotKeyName al=ActionListName" or "HotKeyFile.ffhk HotKeyName/ActionListName".
• Copy HotKey Path to Clipboard (2024-09-08): The path of a HotKey file can now be easily copied to the clipboard by right-clicking on the path and selecting the appropriate option from the context menu.
• Tray Display Settings (2024-09-07): The setting "Show Application in the Tray" has been moved from the "General" tab to the "System Integration" tab of the settings and is now configurable there using the two options "Minimize to Tray - Show application in the tray when the main window is minimized" and "Close to Tray - Show application in the tray when the main window is closed".
• Position Storage (2023-06-09): Improved storage of the last window position in environments with more than one monitor.
• Size Storage (2023-06-06): Improved storage of the program window size and the program layout under high DPI conditions.
• New Language (2023-01-07): 한국어 (Korean).
• Adjustments of the User Interface (2022-10-22): Adjustments of the program windows and dialogs for an improved display under high-dpi resolution conditions.
• HotKey Backup (2021-12-10): Optionally, a directory for the backup can now be defined. If no directory has been specified, the backup is created in the directory where the original HotKey file is stored.
• Optimization (2021-12-10): Improvement of the further performance of the program after the occurrence of an error during processing an Action List.
• Settings (2021-12-09): To reduce the size of the settings files, only those settings are stored, which deviate from the default settings.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2021-07-27): CTRL+N (Create a new HotKey) and ESC (Quit program).
• New Placeholders (2021-05-27): The new placeholders %date%, %time%, %dd.mm.yyyy%, %yyyy-mm-dd%, %hh-mm-ss%, %hh-mm%, %hh:mm:ss% and %hh:mm% combine some of the existing placeholders for the current date and time so that they can be entered more quickly.
• Language Detection (2021-05-03): Improvement of the automatic language detection of the system language when starting the program.
• New filters for the Check Function (2020-04-03): The result of the Check Function can now be filtered so that only syntax errors, path errors or printer errors are displayed.
• Automatic check at program start (2020-04-02): In the menu Settings > Check Function, you can now determine whether and which parts of your Action Lists should be automatically checked for errors when the program is started.
• Check printers (2020-04-01): The Check Function can now also check whether actions contain printers that do not exist.
• New Language (2020-02-24): Polski (Polish).
• New Language (2020-01-15): Русский (Russian).
• New Function (2019-11-27): Check Function for testing HotKeys, Action Lists and Actions for errors including function for searching and replacing in the Actions.
• HotKey Backup (2019-05-28): Option in the settings to automatically backup the previous HotKey file before any change to the HotKey file.
• New Languages (2019-05-15): Spanish (Español) and French (Français).
• New Option (2019-03-14): Show Faster Files in the tray when the main window is closed.
• Parallel Usage (2019-03-13): Improved command-line control while using another instance without command-line.
• Saving of window position and window size (2018-02-10): Position and size of the program window can now be saved in the startup settings and setting profiles.
• High-DPI-Improvements (2017-12-06): Improvements of the graphical user interface and the icons for high dpi settings.
• New Actions (2016-04-23): The new actions File Download and Paste from Clipboard were added.
• New Action (2016-03-31): A new action for printing Files or Folder Content was added.
• New Placeholders (2016-03-21): The new placeholders %TARGETDIR_FILES% and %TARGETDIR_DIRS% allow refering to only the files or only the folders currently located in the target directory.
• Subfolders in Action Lists (2016-02-22): It is now possible to order the Actions of a Action List using sub folders.
• Content of Folder (2016-02-07): It is now alternatively possible to only open, copy, move, delete, copy to clipboard or cut to clipboard the content of a folder instead of the entire folder.
• Actions with multiple Files and Folders (2016-01-17): Up to now, it was only possible to process one single file or one single folder per action. Now, it is also possible to add and process multiple files at once with the actions "Open", "Copy", "Move", "Delete" and "Cut/Copy to Clipboard".
• Drag and Drop (2016-01-13): When creating or editing actions, files and folders can now also be added via drag and drop to the corresponding fields. Adding via selection dialog, manual typing or copying the path is also still possible.

Note: Minor changes, such as updating an existing program translation or fixing a bug, are typically not included in this list. Therefore, if you find a newer version of the program in the download area than the most recent date in this list, we have typically made such a change to the program.