Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.
How to Use Internet Download Manager?
Buy IDM. Download and Install the software. Open the software. Follow the below instruction on available settings and options to download manually or automatically.
IDM main window:
IDM main window consists of Add URL, resume, stop all, delete, options and more you can see on top of the IDM window as shown in the below figure.
IDM supports both manual and automatic downloads
Manual download on IDM:
Manual download on IDM, click on the Add URL tab and paste the URL link and press OK and then download will start as shown in below.
Automatic download on IDM:
The IDM download dialog automatically appears on the browser. IDM will give different qualities of videos while downloading videos from YouTube and other sites. This is the best tool for downloading videos.
The automatic download dialog appears when IDM detects the type of file which are listed in the box of “automatically start downloading the following file types are shown below.
Browser settings:
The IDM can support for all browsers, if you can not download through idm, check tick on your browser as shown in below.
File types:
IDM can support lots of file types like 3gp,fkv, zip, etc. You can also add file type which type of file has to be automatically download shown below.
Downloads directory:
In IDM we can edit the saving location of downloading files and categorize downloading files into pictures, videos, files, etc,.
Download settings:
IDM provides customization of different dialog on the status of downloading the file and it provides virus checking option to detect viruses on downloaded files, thus it provides us from viruses and malware.
Connection settings:
IDM can support low, medium, and high-speed internet connections. It provides 2 to 32 multi connections for a single downloading file that can utilize maximum available speed.
Sound settings:
IDM provides notification on the status of the downloading file in the sounds shown in below.
Dialup/vpn settings:
The IDM tool provide download files through VPN and dial up networks.
Proxy /socks:
In IDM we can download files through proxy or socks thus we secure from cyber attacks.
Resume the downloads:
The IDM has a better resume capability for most downloads. In browsers, resume capability is not available, if there is any interruption in the connection we need to download the file from starting.
But in IDM we get a resume when “yes” is appear on resume capability, thus we can pause or stop the download and again start the download at the point where you stop thus we can save a lot of time.
Download speed acceleration:
The IDM uses dynamic file segmentation technology. In this technology, the entire downloading file is divided into many parts as segments that depend on which you selected in the maximum number of connections. The segmentation improves download performance due to it connect more connections if anyone that is lost download will not stop it download file from the remaining connections and try to reconnect that lost connection.