Nice, Free Download Manager?

hardc0re_tid · 14 Nov 2006 at 10:08

anyone know of a free Download Manager? was using DAP for a bit but it intergrates itself with IE. dont get me wrong DAP is good but im looking for something else, less memory resources - i found DAP ate a good bit of my memory.

do all DL managers store partially downloaded files so i can continue downloading at a later date?

MarcLister · 14 Nov 2006 at 11:03

hardc0re_tid said:
anyone know of a free Download Manager?

Hmm and you've never heard of Free Download Manager before? How did you do that? :eek:

hardc0re_tid · 14 Nov 2006 at 11:10

MarcLister said:
Hmm and you've never heard of Free Download Manager before? How did you do that?

ohhh! its good, but its not right!

i think i have tried it before and didnt like it :eek:

thanks anyway

MarcLister · 14 Nov 2006 at 11:11

hardc0re_tid said:
i think i have tried it before and didnt like it thanks anyway

Oh OK. Are you using Firefox by any chance?

hardc0re_tid · 14 Nov 2006 at 11:14

MarcLister said:
Oh OK. Are you using Firefox by any chance?

not too keen on that either, would rather use ie6/7

EDIT - dont even mention Thunderbird lol

MarcLister · 14 Nov 2006 at 11:15

hardc0re_tid said:
not too keen on that either, would rather use ie6/7

Ah. Had a Firefox suggestion but I hardly use IE except for Windows Updates so I've no idea about download managers for IE.

Edit - Course you could use Thunderbird. It isn't a download manager per se but a bit of tweaking and it could rock.

TheVoice · 14 Nov 2006 at 11:58

Marc, what's your Firefox suggestion, just for the rest of us?

GetRight is usually pretty good, but I've had a few odd problems with it lately so I'm looking for something new.

MarcLister · 14 Nov 2006 at 12:04

TheVoice said:
Marc, what's your Firefox suggestion, just for the rest of us?

GetRight is usually pretty good, but I've had a few odd problems with it lately so I'm looking for something new.

Well either Free Download Manager as I said before teamed up with Flashgot for Firefox which will send any downloads to Free Download Manager. This is what I use. Recently I succeeded in achieving a long-standing aim of disabling Free Download Manager from monitoring IE and now it only works on FF.

Or my other suggestion was DownloadThemAll.

FUNTY · 14 Nov 2006 at 13:05

Another vote here for ' Free Download Manager'

meghatronic · 14 Nov 2006 at 13:09

Opera?

MarcLister · 14 Nov 2006 at 13:14

jdickerson said:
Opera?

Download manager not browser

I think I know what you mean though. I did try Opera earlier this year but just couldn't get to grips. I was downloading some rFactor updates via Opera. I wanted to change the settings for torrents but I couldn't until I restarted Opera or added a new torrent or something silly like that.

this_is_gav · 14 Nov 2006 at 15:26

FlashGet's good (and if you're using Fx use the FlashGot extension with it).

Free Download Manager seems similar in terms of looks, but I've never used it, so can't judge.

konicky · 14 Nov 2006 at 18:21

hardc0re_tid said:
anyone know of a free Download Manager? was using DAP for a bit but it intergrates itself with IE. dont get me wrong DAP is good but im looking for something else, less memory resources - i found DAP ate a good bit of my memory.

do all DL managers store partially downloaded files so i can continue downloading at a later date?

Have you tried Leechget?

http://www.leechget.net/en/

pany · 14 Nov 2006 at 19:49

this_is_gav said:
FlashGet's good (and if you're using Fx use the FlashGot extension with it).

Free Download Manager seems similar in terms of looks, but I've never used it, so can't judge.

listen to this man he speaks the truth, flashget is a great little app