DOWNLOAD-FORCE ©

This simple utility may aid you in downloading graphic files from
websites which have no easy way for you to obtain such objects.

Occasionally you see an interesting graphic item on a website which you would like to download for your own use.

[ Disclaimer: using graphic items from someone else's website may or may not be legal. User descretion advised! ]
Sometimes you will find the website has blocked the Save Target As.. and the Save Picture As... features of your right-click pop-up menu.
Sometimes websites block your right-click menu altogether. DOWNLOAD-FORCE
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can often help you get around these limitations.
DOWNLOAD-FORCE
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may also work for movie files which are programmed at a website to be unavailable for download.

[ This utiltiy has been tested with: Internet Explorer v6.0, Netscape v7.2, and FireFox v2.0 ]

Step 1:
When you are looking at a webpage with a stubborn graphic item you wish to download...

Right-click the graphic and select Properties from the pop-up menu.
Right-click any letter in the text found in the Address (URL) field and select SELECT ALL.
Right-click on the text you just selected, and select COPY from the pop-up menu.
Click CANCEL to close the Properties box.
Now come back here to DOWNLOAD-FORCE
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and go to Step 2.

NOTE-1: If you cannot get to Properties, because the right-click menu feature has been disabled, you can often hover your mouse over the desired item and see its URL in your browser's status bar. If you are unable to COPY what you see, then write it down for use in Step 2 below. Also, you can often browse to that graphic or movie link, so that it is opened in a browser window by itself. In that case, if you still cannot download the item, just copy its full URL from your browser's Address Bar. As a last resort, you may need to use VIEW | SOURCE and dig around in the html source text until you find the URL to the object in question.

NOTE-2: Occasionally the URL you see for a graphic item may only be relative to the page in which you see it. In that case you will need to append the item's relative URL to the webpage's full URL, in order to have a complete link to that object.

Step 2:
      In the following text field, type or paste the URL to the item you wish to download:


Step 3:
      Click this button: to place your URL into the link below.         Or, to reset this page, click this button:

Step 4:
      When using Internet Explorer, right-click the following link and select Save Target As.. from the pop-up menu.
          For Netscape, use Save Link Target As...
          For FireFox, use Save Link As...
If you have correctly entered the full URL to the object you desire, you should be presented with the FILE DOWNLOAD and/or the SAVE AS pop-up boxes:

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