GetGo Download Manager 4.8.2.1233

The great thing about the internet is that you have access to all sorts of information: the latest news, the latest security threats, new pieces of software and so on. Downloading a few items from the internet is a relatively simple process, especially if you have a good internet connection and a decent computer. But things are not that simple for the internet user that wants to download tons of content off the web. No matter how powerful the computer is and how good the internet connection is, the download seems to slow down after a while.

Nobody likes to sit there and wait for a download that takes forever to complete. With a free piece of software like GetGo Download Manager you can take control of the download process. With GetGo Download Manager you can schedule, organize and accelerate downloads. Just to put things in perspective, with GetGo Download Manager you can download videos, music, games, and various software applications 5 times faster than you would normally download with your web browser. That’s a 500% speed increase!

The annoying thing is that sometimes the internet connection will fail, the browser will crash, or a power surge will shut down your computer – causing your download to be interrupted. With GetGo Download Manager, you need not feel the frustration brought on by unfinished downloads. The software has an auto-resume feature that, as the name so adequately suggests, will restart the download once the computer and the internet connection is back up and running.

GetGo Download Manager integrates with the best known browsers out there: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. At first you will hardly notice the GetGo Download Manager command button; but when you initiate a download, a prompt will ask you if you want to use GetGo Download Manager. This is when GetGo Download Manager comes to live. You will be presented with a window that displays the size of the file you want to download, where the files is downloaded from and how much time the download will take. To the left there’s a navigation screen, while at the bottom there’s a window with information on how much bandwidth the download eats up.

If you want to download videos from the popular video sharing site YouTube, you can easily do so with GetGo Download Manager. The download manager and accelerator automatically detects embedded videos and let’s you download them (in FLV format).

Pros

• Comes free of charge
• Download files up to 5 times faster
• Auto-resume feature for those unexpected power outages, crashes and internet outages
• The option to schedule downloads and shut down the computer when the download completes, which is great for when you want to go to bed and let the computer download content off the web.
• Seamless integration with Firefox and Internet Explorer
• One-click YouTube video download
• Batch download
• Automatically rename downloaded files

Cons

• Ask.com toolbar

GetGo Download Manager has been reviewed by George Norman on 28 Oct 2009. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated GetGo Download Manager 5 out of 5 stars, naming it Essential