Today, download manager is the important software that you must have if you usually download a large file. One features that will help you to download is ability to pause and resume download. It is useful if for some reason your connectivity is down and your downloading isn’t finish yet. If you are using the Windows download applet there is nothing you can do about it; you will just have to start again. A good download manager will allow you to resume the download, picking up where it left off.
Download manager also can improve download speed compare with windows download applet. When you download a file the it will start several concurrent download sessions from available resources for the one file. This works by splitting the file into parts with each part downloaded at the same time from multiple or mirrored resources. At the end the file is re-assembled to one file.
Some download manager now support to download video from video sites like Youtube or Google Video. It can download as flv, mp4, or another popular format.
Below are 10 download manager software for Windows that you must know and you can get by free.
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1. FlashGet
FlashGet uses MHT(Multi-server Hyper-threading Transportation) technique, supports various protocols and has excellent document management features. FlashGet provides download monitoring for Internet Explorer and also integrates well with Firefox’s FlashGot extension
2. Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager is popular free download manager software that support for IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. It has some good features like simultaneous multi-part downloads; restart and recover; powerful scheduler; management of downloaded files. Free Download Manager can download video from youtube or google video, ftp, and bittorrent support
3. Fresh Download
Fresh Download is FreshDesign product’s that can be downloaded fast files from FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It has some good features like pause and resume broken downloads, multiple connections download manager, schedule, antivirus support, ability to download from password protected sites, and built-in Zip file extractor. It also integrate with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firebird, Firefox, Netscape Communicator, Opera, Avant Browser, Crazy Browser, Maxthon / MyIE2, Slim Browser, in any Windows operating system
4. GetGo Download Manager
GetGo Download Manager integrates with IE and Firefox browsers and can download videos from YouTube and other websites with embedded FLV flash videos with one-click. It also support batch download using template; auto rename; download scheduler; managing downloaded files
5. JDownloader
JDownloader is specially designed for free file hosts like Rapidshare, Mediafire, Megaupload etc. It requires Java Runtime Enviroment (jre/jdk) 1.5 or higher.
6. Light Downloader
Light Downloader accelerates downloads by splitting the files into several parts and downloading them simultaneously. It supports resume, schedule, proxy, drag and drop, and can download from FTP, HTTP and HTTPS.
7. MultiGet
MultiGet is an open source download manager and supports multi platforms; multi-task with multi-thread on multi-server to speed up downloads; clipboard monitoring with a good GUI interface; optional auto MD5 check. Right now it doesn’t integrate with any browser.
8. Orbit Downloader
Orbit Downloader offers Grab Pro to download video from sites using anti-leeching technology like YouTube, Pandora, etc. It also comes with a software updater that will let you know if there is any update of your program. It integrates with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Maxthon, supports most streaming media protocols and file-sharing service websites, and includes other features such as general and tagged download management. Please note that this program bundle with OpenCandy
9. SKDownloader
SKDownloader is a java based download accelerator that supports for simultaneous multi-part download, http and ftp protocols, Firefox and IE integration. Please note, this software comes with an advertisement panel which cannot be disabled.
10. Uget
Uget (formerly urlgfe) is cross-platform (Windows & GNU/Linux) download manager that support pause and resume, classify download, every category has an independent configuration, Firefox through Flashgot plugin, and much more. Please note, you need to download GTK+ for windows to run this program.
Except that lists there are another free version of paid download manager. This free version, of course has limitation on its features compare with paid/pro/full version.
Below 5 free version of download manager that you must know
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- Download Express – MetaProducts
- Download Accelerator Manager (DAM) Free
- Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) Free
- Internet Download Accelerato
- KooLoader
If you know another good and free download manager software for Windows, please share using this comment below.
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