All of us have seen cool Flash animations and videos somewhere in the Internet (Youtube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, etc.), but when we want to get this Flash, to save locally on hard disk or memory card there is no Save As... option when you click on the Flash.

In the Internet exist many software programs which will extract and download this flash file from webpage for you, but most of then are shareware or with commercial license.

The easiest way to get this Flash file from website is to get the the file from cache folder of your browser.

Lets examine may be the most popular combination: Internet Explorer and Youtube.

To get Flash Video from Youtube first wait until the entire movie to be preloaded. This mean that the red bar in time-line is full from start to the end of the movie. Next click on Tools / Internet Options / Browsing History / Settings / View Files ...

Next when window with list of many files was opened sort the files by 'Last Accessed' column and now you have to orient by date, file size, internet address and file name. Obviously Flash Video is large files accessed in last minutes from website which you are seen the flash.

When find it, select the file and make copy to some other place, because cache folder will be cleaned after time from files not accessed soon.

Have in mind that the Flash can be in FLV file format or embedded into SWF container file. Video files obviously is in FLV file format, while Flash animations and games are in SWF file format.

Its Done. Now you have locally on your computer Flash Video file and you can play with whatever Media Player you like.