Following on from my, and others’, experiences with failed downloads and ‘corrupt’ zip files in Internet Explorer 7 I manfully tried to download a 194Mb file yesterday with the usual abortive result!
IE7 started to download then raced to the end and stopped. This also happened later with a tiddly 380Kb file. I’d had enough! Yes, I know I could be using Firefox instead of IE7 but I particularly like the way IE7 handles tabs. So I went looking for a decent download manager.
What I found was a piece of software that is simple to use yet, if you access its backend functions, very sophisticated in the way it is able to download multiple files. It can also download files in multiple fragments which speeds the whole download process up in many cases.
In its simplest form it puts a small, blue icon on the bottom right of your screen which is always available for you to drop any download, video or music file link onto. Then it asks you where you want to save it and just gets on with the download in the background while you carry on working.
If you want to see what is going on or prefer to manage multiple downloads then double-click the icon and you get access to the full download manager interface.
You can download it from here as my gift in the hope it not only solves any download problems you may have but also makes your life easier, as it has mine!
I have to say that I don’t experience these download problems. It may be something to with using SlimBrowser (www.flashpeak.com) which uses the IE engine and has for several years provided excellent tabbed browsing.
It is, of course, free. I love it. Better than IE7 and Firefox IMHO.
Naturally, I’ve downloaded your freebie. Thanks very much.
Robin
You’re one of the many who don’t experience problems. Robin but, judging by the number of downloads, many do.
These problems do seem to be centered round IE7 so maybe your choice of browser is a wise one.