Internet/Download Managers
freeware
Orbit Downloader
Orbit Downloader is a full-featured download accelerator and manager. It is based on P2P technology. It has advanced robust multithread download algorithm implemented with high quality. It integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer to automatically handle your downloads. You can easily download files from any remote server via HTTP, FTP, RTSP or MMS. It has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe P2P downloading technology to accelerate...
shareware ($25}
Internet Download Manager
Internet Download Manager is a tool for increasing download speeds by up to 5 times, and for resuming, scheduling, and organizing downloads. The program will resume unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages. The program features a full-fledged site grabber that downloads files that are specified with filters, for example, all pictures from a Web site, different parts of web sites, or complete web sites for offline browsing. The program supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and MMS...
open source
Free Download Manager
Free Download Manager (FDM) is a full-featured freeware downloading program. It allows you to download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
adware
Download Accelerator Plus
Download Accelerator Plus (DAP) leverages patented technology, ease of use and rich features including: multi-connections for fastest download from most responsive servers, auto-recovery from lost connections and errors, AlwaysResume (where standard resume is not supported), scheduling, file management tools, auto hang-up and much more. It integrates with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and others.
freeware
BitTorrent
BitTorrent is a protocol for distributing files. It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate seamlessly with the Web. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load.
open source
Halite
Halite is yet another open-source BitTorrent client and is based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. What makes Halite stand out is its remote control interface allowing you to monitor and control the program from a mobile phone.
freeware
FlashGot
FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox extension meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads with several external Download Managers.
shareware ($35}
DownloadStudio
DownloadStudio is an ultra-fast download manager and download accelerator that gets everything on the web. It contains over 12 specialized downloading tools including: file downloader; flash video downloader; file range downloader; web site downloader; streaming media downloader; RSS feed, blog and podcast downloader; audio and video recorder; URL sniffer; site explorer; RSS feed reader; file browser and organizer; and easy-to-use Quick Start.
DownloadStudio's easy-to-use tools let you download any type...
freeware
GetGo Download Manager
GetGo Download Manager lets you download all of your favorite videos, programs, and music up to 300 percent faster than you're used to with conventional browsers. Don't waste your frustrations on downloads halted by service interruptions or bottlenecks. Enjoy the reliability of autoresume features, and the virus detection that keeps your PC safe.
shareware ($25}
Net Transport
Net Transport is a fast and powerful download tool. You may use it to download files from Internet servers. It now supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS (Microsoft Media Services), and RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol) - five protocols used to transfer data. It can use multiple threads to download files. If a site allows multithreaded downloads, you can expect much faster speeds. This is especially effective for MMS streams because they use a fixed transmission speed and loading several streams of the same...
shareware ($30}
GetRight
GetRight works with your web browser to help you download files from the Internet. It can accelerate your downloads and can recover downloads if errors occur (resume downloading). It has many other advanced features such as scheduling, automatic dialing, and file searching.
freeware
DownThemAll
DownThemAll is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. It lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want. It is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time and, last but not least,...
freeware
Windows Updates Downloader
Windows Updates Downloader is a small utility that allows you to download all of the current Windows critical updates. All updates are downloaded directly from microsoft.com to your computer with a single mouse click.
shareware ($20}
Internet Download Accelerator
Internet Download Accelerator lets you to noticeably increase the speed of file download from the Internet using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols. The acceleration is achieved by splitting a file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time. Internet Download Accelerator resumes broken downloads from where they left off from both HTTP, HTTPS and FTP servers.
shareware ($40}
Teleport Pro
Teleport Pro is an all-purpose high-speed tool for getting data from the Internet. Launch up to ten simultaneous retrieval threads, access password-protected sites, filter files by size and type, search for keywords, and much more. Capable of reading HTML 4.0, CSS 2.0, and DHTML, it is the only webspider that really finds all of the files on all of the sites. With side image map exploration, automatic dial-up connecting, Java applet support, variable exploration depths, project scheduling, and relinking...
open source
xVideoServiceThief
xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a tool for downloading your favorite video clips from a lot of video websites. It also provides you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats.
freeware
MOV Download Tool
MOV Download Tool allows you to download QuickTime files from various websites and allows you to play them in your favorite player. This tool acts as a proxy between those QuickTime 'buttons' that you find on some websites and the QuickTime Player. It intercepts the URLs and presents you a list of actions to choose from. This tool is also able to extract urls from .qtl files. Those are found for example on the Yahoo! movie site.
freeware
SpeedyiTunes
SpeedyiTunes is a social meida accelerator and downloader. It accelerates Youtube and 300+ alike video sites. Saving YouTube/FLV is just a 1-Click task. It also accelerates web file share site. RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc. It has a builtin search engine for files on RapidShare, MegaUpload, SendSpace, ZShare and many other File share websites.
shareware ($20}
Lightning Download
Lightning Download is a download manager to help you download files from the Internet. It contains absolutely no extra advertising add-ons or advertising systems. It lets you accelerate your downloads, schedule downloads, manage your downloads, and anything else you would expect from a download manager.
shareware ($20}
Mass Downloader
Mass Downloader allows you to download files from the Web and FTP sites at the maximum available speed. Multiple downloading channels technology significantly decreases the time necessary to download files. It also allows you to browse Zip archives before loading them and to choose only the desired files to download. It has an excellent Internet Explorer-like user interface.
freeware
YouChoob
YouChoob is an application that allows you to download videos directly from the YouTube.com website and save them to a location on your system. YC is the easiest way to download videos as all it requires is the URL address to the page that contains the video. It supports downloading from all language versions of YouTube and will automatically download the highest quality version of all videos, if available.
freeware
StreamTransport
StreamTransport is able to browse and download video clips from video hosting websites of HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, RTMPTE protocol, and these cover overwhelming majority of websites such as Hulu, Veoh, Boxee, Joost, YouTube, Yahoo Video, CBS, etc. The URL of any video clip that is playing will be auto-captured and listed out for your convenience, and you can download it with one click or just ignore it. There is no bother to add URL manually. The videos will be saved as FLV or MP4 format in your media...
freeware
.NET Framework Cleanup Tool
.NET Framework Cleanup Tool is designed to automatically perform a set of steps to remove selected versions of the .NET Framework from a computer. It will remove files, directories, registry keys and values and Windows Installer product registration information for the .NET Framework. The tool is intended primarily to return your system to a known (relatively clean) state in case you are encountering .NET Framework installation, uninstallation, repair or patching errors so that you can try to install...
shareware ($40}
WebCopier
WebCopier is a powerful offline browser that downloads Web sites and stores them locally. It gives you instant access to critical Web sites at any time, regardless of where you are. It performs precise links searching, including JavaScript parsing, it can download up to 100 files simultaneously and print entire Web site or only specific part of it. It supports proxy servers, allows to specify account name and password to access secure Web sites. Advanced features include website preview, SSL (HTTPS)...
freeware
Fresh Download
Fresh Download is an easy-to-use and very fast download manager software that turbo charge downloading files from the Internet, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc.
freeware
Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery.
freeware
UpdateStar
UpdateStar lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software you are using on your computer. This way you make sure to always use the most up-to-date software, maximizing your every-day user experience. It covers all of your freeware, shareware, demos, commercial software, and includes special offers.
freeware
FlashGet
FlashGet is specifically designed to address two of the biggest problems when downloading files: Speed and management of downloaded files. If you've ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow connection, or been cut off mid-way through a download or just can't keep track of your ever-growing downloads then it is for you. It can split downloaded files into sections, downloading each section simultaneously, for an increase in downloading speed from 100% to 500%. This, coupled with its...