Free Download Manager

Free Download Manager is a basic yet efficient program which aims to assist you in organizing your multiple web downloads, allowing you to save various items to your computer without having to pay attention to interrupted processes or similar issues.

After a quick and uneventful installation operation, you can launch the application from the optionally created desktop shortcut, and begin adding links.

The interface of Free Download Manager is fairly simple and easy to handle, requiring no prior experience in working with such tools.

It features three main panels, the 'Download Basket', 'History' and 'Current Downloads', the latter of which can be filtered based on the current status. Similarly, Free Download Manager offers a toolbar that lets you add or delete links, start a selected process or pause it, as well as open the destination folder.

In order to add a download link to the queue, you can use the button from the main interface or the equivalent option from the 'File' menu. Aside from the corresponding URL address for the object that you want to grab, you can also input a username and a password, if the targeted website requires authentication.

Moreover, Free Download Manager enables you to resort to a proxy server, as well as choose the save location for all your files and limit the number of simultaneous processes. The main advantage of this utility is the fact that it spares you from having to constantly watch over the items you are downloading to make sure they are not interrupted and never start back again.

While it may not run in the system tray, Free Download Manager can be minimized to the taskbar, allowing you to carry on with your work and not interfering with your activity, other than to prompt you when an operation is completed.

To sum it up, Free Download Manager is a basic, yet reliable piece of software which enables you to grab several files from the Internet simultaneously or in queue, depending on your needs, while also sparing you from a lot of effort.