Download accilerator

[Daj]

HI
I want to download a driver for my Nvida GeForce FX 5200 vedio card.
The download site says to disable the "download accelerator" before down loading. Does anyone know
what this is and where it is and how to disable it? Also what it does if I don't disable it. I never
heard of such a file. I checked Google, it shows there is a 3rd party program for this. Does Win XP
Home have program like this? I am using Keyhole and need to get the most out of my vedio card. Some
sites just don't come up good at all.
Any help I can get will sure be appreciated. I never downloaded and installed a driver before. All I
know is to uninstall the driver in use, then install the downloaded driver.
Thanks to all.
Daj

 

[Matt Gibson]

If you don't know about it, then you don't have one

It's a third party tool that helps "speed up" downloads. There's a bunch
out there.

Don't worry about it.

Matt Gibson - GSEC

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Download Accelerator is a 3rd party utility to "speed up" downloads. If you
do not know what this is then you have not installed it.

 

[Daj]

Thanks to both of you, I won't worry about it anymore. o )
Daj

 

[Alan Smith]

HI
I want to download a driver for my Nvida GeForce FX 5200 vedio card.
The download site says to disable the "download accelerator" before down
loading. Does anyone know what this is and where it is and how to disable
it? Also what it does if I don't disable it. I never heard of such a file.
I checked Google, it shows there is a 3rd party program for this. Does Win
XP Home have program like this? I am using Keyhole and need to get the
most out of my vedio card. Some sites just don't come up good at all.
Any help I can get will sure be appreciated. I never downloaded and
installed a driver before. All I know is to uninstall the driver in use,
then install the downloaded driver.
Thanks to all.
Daj

There are a few utilities that can do this, like Fresh Download etc. If you
haven't installed one you probably don't have one. They can connect to a
site multiple times so speed up downloads- you essentially get multiple
shares of the bandwidth rather than the single share you should get so it
can speed up downloads on busy sites or links.

 

[Galen]

In Matt Gibson <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

If you don't know about it, then you don't have one

It's a third party tool that helps "speed up" downloads. There's a
bunch out there.

Don't worry about it.

Matt Gibson - GSEC

Just one thing to add, you don't usually uninstall your drivers before
installing new ones (well, err, I don't at any rate) you just download them,
open them, and they install over the other ones and you have the ability to
roll back the drivers to the older ones if the new one should prove
problematic.

Galen
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