Free Download Manager V3.0.844    Suggested by Sydney2K - Added on 1 Oct 2007 17MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2632) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (11) - Post comment - Permalink

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 deep: portable version writes to the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\Settings\Monitor
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\Settings\Update
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\Settings\View
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Download Manager\Settings\View\Loc
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Upload Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Upload Manager\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeDownloadManager.ORG\Free Upload Manager\Settings\Integration [2007-10-01 18:37]

 Andrew Lee: @deep: That's why I marked it as "Stealth: No". But none of the registry entries it creates are related to user settings. They are just working entries, so it is EXE + settings portable, just not stealth. [2007-10-03 16:48]

 Cosmo: I've tried to make it portable but it doesn't integrate with browser. In the not portable version it work great.. Any suggestion? [2008-05-06 05:38]

 Terje: Regarding problem integrating it to browser.
An easy solution, is to install the FF-extension 'flashgot'. Through flashgot you can set your default down. manager through browsing. [2008-06-18 08:48]

 tun: How can I install plugins to portable FDM ? [2009-01-04 05:38]

 BGM: I think this FDM works great, but I don't find it very portable. I have "created" the portable version from the file menu and indeed, it has created it. But it won't remember its settings. I sure wish it had an ini file. It remembers its download folder correctly, but so many of the other options I set for it are forgotten every time. It is really dissapointing. [2009-01-10 18:04]

 Dejano: BGM: Ive found that the settings is forgotten to. The settings is saved in \data\settings.dat but that file "forgets" the settings each time you restart FDM. Hope the developers see this and fixes the settings saving!!! [2009-01-19 01:30]

 Hodder: @BGM, @Dejano:
I had same problem, but I've changed "service files" folder (Settings>General>Misc>Advanced) to ".\Data" (folder I've found in FDM dir) and... everything works fine! [2009-03-01 11:37]

 fsr: Found the entries deep mentioned and also:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{0DC81A74-1FBD-4EF6-82B2-DE3FA05E8233}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{1B26E4A2-7F09-4365-9AB8-13E6891E42CB}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{21402197-BB5B-476C-AA1D-3FFED8ED813A}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{8F2B3016-17D4-447A-B207-FFA8957A834A}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{F8FA5B48-B7A2-4BC6-8389-9587643A4660}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{DA122254-5927-44C6-8E37-459473384004}\1.0
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{DA122254-5927-44C6-8E37-459473384004}\1.0\0\win32
HKU\S-1-5-21-4014990344-446842713-1762232497-1000\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache
HKU\S-1-5-21-4014990344-446842713-1762232497-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{F8FA5B48-B7A2-4BC6-8389-9587643A4660}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{DA122254-5927-44C6-8E37-459473384004}\1.0
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{DA122254-5927-44C6-8E37-459473384004}\1.0\0\win32
HKLM\SOFTWARE\fslrdr\1\HLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\E302FCAFD4F0A9848BC01D5852C3F8BC\Features
HKLM\SOFTWARE\ITConcepts\MasterRepository\CachedRequests\ItDAC.AdmObjects\Load\Services\SSO\Scripts
HKLM\SOFTWARE\ITConcepts\MasterRepository\CachedRequests\ItVCServer.VCServerEngine\LoadServiceConfig\DAS\7FFF#7FFE#0005#
HKLM\SYSTEM\Software\Comodo\Firewall Pro\Configurations\0\Firewall\Policy\69
HKLM\SYSTEM\Software\Comodo\Firewall Pro\Configurations\0\Firewall\Policy\69
HKLM\SYSTEM\Software\Comodo\Firewall Pro\Configurations\0\HIPS\Policy\1
HKLM\SYSTEM\Software\Comodo\Firewall Pro\Configurations\0\HIPS\Policy\1
HKU\S-1-5-21-4014990344-446842713-1762232497-1000\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache
HKU\S-1-5-21-4014990344-446842713-1762232497-1000_Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\MuiCache

Several registry temporary keys and values are also created (but removed on FDM shutdown)

@Hodder
Thanks, it worked for me.

BTW if you use Lite version (no torrent support or video conversion) you can redure HDD/USB stick space up to 6 MB. [2009-04-10 11:21]

 Tpig: Good downloader, work great for me.
You can strip this neat app down to just 1.5mb.
Only these files are needed:
- Data\*
- fdm.exe
- fdm.tlb
- fdmcs.dat
- msvcp60.dll
- player.swf
- vistafx.dll
Finally, use upx to pack fdm.exe and u get it. [2009-05-16 03:21]

 BGM: After some headaches and persistence and a few tweaks, I have been using FDM now for quite awhile as a portable download manager. There is no other prog out there that is as versatile as this. I highly recommend it. You need to know a few tricks however:
1. Let the settings stay in the "current user's data folder". It will remember most of its settings, but not all.
2. To set the download folder to a folder on your USB drive, you need to know that the relative path to the USB drive is: %sdrive%
3. As of version 3.0 build 848 you cannot turn off "automatic updates" for FDM. You also cannot remove the context menu entries from IE (or its clonies who embed IE)
4. You can only download video from certain websites which FDM is pre-programmed to handle.
5. You can turn on and off the torrent-download capability and it does work.
6. There are many filters, but the one you want to see the most is called: "Not completed and recent" which is basically the list of downloads you are now working with.
7. If you find your web-browser slowing to a crawl, then know that FDM has three download speed settings which control how much bandwidth it consumes. If your browser is too slow it is because FDM is using a lot of bandwidth. The best thing to do is to set your options in the "Network" part to "Decrease traffic on browser activity", which will automatically free your bandwidth when you browse.
-God bless! -BGM

I hope that helps someone! [2009-06-26 21:49]

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