Active Download Accelerator

The market is already full of download managers, each promising to offer increased download speed, and Active Download Accelerator is just one of the examples.

The program is pretty basic and you shall notice this straight from the first run. It comprises a minimal interface and very simple tools to help you manage your downloads.

Plus, it lacks many important features usually included in powerful download managers, such as browser integration and clipboard monitoring.

As a result, if you wish to start a new download, you have no other solution than to use the “Add URL” feature available under the “File” menu and thus add a new download link to the list.

There’s no configuration screen, so you can’t change anything else beside the download folder.

While it promises to increase download speed as much as possible, we haven’t experienced any speed boost during our testing and even encountered some problems when trying to launch Active Download Accelerator on a Windows 7 machine.

It doesn’t work on Windows 7 at all, not even when launched with administrator privileges, so it’s only supposed to be used on older versions of Microsoft’s operating system.

All things considered, it’s pretty obvious that Active Download Accelerator is far from what you may expect from a powerful download manager. It lacks browser integration and clipboard monitoring, it has no configuration option and doesn’t increase speed. On the other hand, it runs on low resources and doesn’t affect the overall performance of the systems.