- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: September 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 520,189
- Downloads last week: 14,988
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 42 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 01, 2009
For users who download a great deal of content, there are always headaches in the process. No matter how fast your computer runs, downloading seems to slow down and complicate matters. GetGo Download Manager proved to be worthy of the task of taming the download process.
This freeware program will not be immediately noticed, as it comes as a command button on your Internet browser. But even then, this program doesn't come alive until users attempt to download music, movies, pictures, or other forms of media. A box will open asking if the user wants to use GetGo to download. From there, they are sent to a screen that shows what you are downloading, how large it is, where it comes from and how long it will take. At the bottom of the screen is a monitor of how much bandwidth this is taking. To the left is a navigation screen to look at all downloads past, present, and on hold. We appreciated the range of options for managing downloads, including picking the download folder, sorting videos into categories, and renaming files.
We were very impressed with the performance GetGo provided, as it lived up to its billing and downloaded media at a much quicker rate than expected. The program is organized in a very intuitive way and does a nice job of sorting out jobs. We highly recommend this program for any user who frequently downloads flash video files.
Publisher's description
From GetGo Software :Free Full Featured Online Video, Music and File Download Manager, Downloader and Accelerator. This Free Downloader is an Essential Internet Tool for Increasing Download Speed, Resuming, Scheduling, and Organizing downloads. Easy to use, customizable modern interface allows you to download all of your favorite videos, program, games, and music with with extreme acceleration. With auto-resuming feature, you never have to waste your frustrations on unfinished downloads due to network problems, or unexpected power outages.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.3.0.382 fixes IE crash on exit, improves browser integration workflow, adds auto resume stopped downloads on GetGo startup.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.9 stars out of 42 votes
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Version: GetGo Download Manager 4.3.0.382
"Fast and efficient, but not for long."
Pros: The downloading of Youtube videos is really fast.
Cons: It doesn't work just the next day, on both of my 2 computers.
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Version: GetGo Download Manager 4.3.0.382
Pros: I really can't think of any
Cons: Installed things I didn't want even though I "opted out"
Summary: This program was very hard to configure and confusing. I thought all it would add to my IE8 was a download button. WRONG. When I installed it, I opted out of a "Ask! Toolbar & Search." I do NOT need yet another toolbar/search engine window with ... read more >>
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Version: GetGo Download Manager 4.3.0.382
"effective - but can also be very annoying"
Pros: works on most websites
Cons: multi downloads not allowed
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GetGo Download Manager 4.3.0.382
"You should know if you really need this"
Pros: The features looks good but they actually don't work well as they should
Cons: Very slow working
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GetGo Download Manager 4.3.0.382
Pros: Tiger Woods, Albert Pujols, Eli Manning, etc
Cons: Would not download first file I attempted to use it for, indicating it couldn't find it. Would not let me download said file using Firefox, or my other download manager.
Summary: Complete waste of time.
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