MetaProducts Download Express

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MetaProducts Download Express is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP program
that allows you to download individual files from the Web and FTP
sites at the maximum possible speed. Multiple channels technology
significantly reduces download time. MetaProducts Download Express is
a small (about 400 Kb) MS Internet Explorer plugin application.
Currently it supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher. By
default, MetaProducts Download Express intercepts all clicks on files
with extensions: 123, ARJ, CAB, CDW, COM, DOC, EXE, JAR, LHA, MP2,
MP3, MPE, MPEG, MPG, PDF, PPT, RAR, RTF, TAR, XLS and ZIP.
MetaProducts Download Express has the auto-learn feature. It will ask
you about including filename extensions when you add files with a new
extension using browser click hot keys. When you cancel, MetaProducts
Download Express opens a file window for unwanted file types and asks
if you want to exclude this extension from its file types list.

Browser clicks monitoring hot keys:
- Please hold the Alt+Control keys down when clicking to add any link
to MetaProducts Download Express;
- Please hold the Shift key down when clicking to have MetaProducts
Download Express ignore a link.


http://www.metaproducts.com/mp/mpProducts_Detail.asp?id=18

 

[Blinky the Shark]

MetaProducts Download Express is a Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP program

Full version: $9.95.

 

[Scott]

Full version: $9.95.

kinda funny, using good old "wget' sort of gets the job done for
nothing more then the time it takes user to learn how to use it. A
wget version for windows no doubt exists... Right?

 

[Blinky the Shark]

On Thu, Oct 30 2003, in alt.comp.freeware,

kinda funny, using good old "wget' sort of gets the job done for
nothing more then the time it takes user to learn how to use it. A
wget version for windows no doubt exists... Right?

http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html

 

[Rob]

http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html

More recent version of WGET can be found here
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

There is also a Windows GUi for WGET at http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/

There is also WackGET, a Windows Download Manager for WGET -- See
http://www.millweed.com/projects/wackget/

Rob

 

[Scott]

More recent version of WGET can be found here
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/

There is also a Windows GUi for WGET at
http://www.jensroesner.de/wgetgui/

There is also WackGET, a Windows Download Manager for WGET -- See
http://www.millweed.com/projects/wackget/

Rob

Thanks to both Blinky and Rob for the links. I've a friend that
might find these useful.

 

[Matt]

Full version: $9.95.

Free features are still as was in version 1.3 - so that may make it
"Liteware", burt it's still a usable Downloader if you do not require
management capability - and it's about the most stable Downloader I've
ever used.

Leechget also recently took a similarly divided route.
http://www.leechget.net/


http://www.webattack.com/freeware/downloader/fwdown.html
Some of these are marked adware - Webattack seem to be reasonably on
top of it, - usually correct!

 

[Roger Johansson]

Free features are still as was in version 1.3 - so that may make it
"Liteware", burt it's still a usable Downloader if you do not require
management capability - and it's about the most stable Downloader I've
ever used.

Download Express is also the only one I know for sure can handle
cookies.
If you try downloading a file from a direct link to the file in a
files area at yahoo groups and elsewhere, you can only do that if the
downloader program can present a cookie when asked to at the beginning
of the download.

(Of course, you have to be a member of the yahoo mailing list in
question and have the membership cookie in your computer)

Other downloaders are unable to download from such a direct link you
may have received in a mail from the mailing list, so you have to log
in and download it manually.

If some other download program can handle cookies, please tell us
about it.

The other important quality in a downloader is if it can open more
than one thread. In Download Express I use 3 threads per file which
gives higher efficiency while downloading. It also has a nice map
display where you can see how the 3 threads are advancing.