Free Download Manager Portable 2.5.753 Dev Test 1Submitted by Travis Carrico on February 22, 2008 - 12:27am
Free Download Manager is a very powerful and easy-to-use download accelerator and manager with tons of features. The program had a "make portable version" button but that version still left behind stuff so I made launchers. I made both the full and lite versions. http://www.freedownloadmanager.org Free Download Manager: Free Download Manager Lite: As noted below, there are some problems with this "portable" version provided from FDM that are beyond my control. is this program is to ever be redone, it needs to be done from the full program, not their "make portable version" Free Download Manager Portable 2.5.753 Development Test 1 5.94MB Free Download Manager Lite Portable 2.5.753 Development Test 1 2.04MB ( categories: )
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FOSS?
Is that program Open Source?
EDIT: Answered my own question and it's "yes".
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/features.htm
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cool
Also it seems to work great but a few times when i opened and closed it fairly fast, the settings didn't copy back from the app folder to the data folder. Any ideas on why that would happen?
I haven't tried it but I think its this: copying needs time so when you open and close it faster than the time it needs to copy things back and forth, things will get messy.
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Registry Key created
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\uTorrent\shell\open\command\,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{CC59E0F9-7E43-44FA-9FAA-8377850BF205}\, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{CC59E0F9-7E43-44FA-9FAA-8377850BF205}\InProcServer32\
I was using the larger version of FDM Portable.
...But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ. Romans 6:23
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are you sure it was the one that left those because i don't see why it would mess with uTorrent since that's another program that may not even be on a lot of computers
Quite sure.
I had an analytic program running in the background.
It showed that the FDM was what edited the registry.
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Exact Text
It was contained within two notices. This is the first:
Process: F:\PortableApps\FreeDownloadManagerPortable\App\FreeDownloadManager\fdm.exe Process description: Free Download Manager Process Publisher: FreeDownloadManager.ORG Process version: 2.5 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browswer Helper Objects\{CC59E0F9-7E43-44FA-9FAA-8377850BF205}'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CLSID\{CC59E0F9-7E43-44FA-9FAA-8377850BF205} \InProcServer34F:\PortableApps\FreeDownloadManagerPortable\App\FreeDownloadManager\iefdm2.dllAnd the second:
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I almost hate to resurect
I almost hate to resurect this topic, but is there any chance you could provide a link to the program?
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what do you mean? i never took down the links.
I guess I should have
I guess I should have specified, the anlytic program that he had running.
Good gracious! There goes a kangaroo. I must have a practice with me boomerang- Now then, slowly back
If you throw that thing at me, I'll jump right on your head.
Innit marvellous? Got a land full of kangaroos and I had to pick that one.
For the uTorrent
Maybe it's because FDM have a torrent support.
I Agree
I'm gonna check into that.
Signatures are like so overrated.
how can i...?
well if it adds a key for utorrent, then it may add other keys depending on what programs are installed on any given computer... Is there any way to make my NSIS script monitor what new keys are created by FDM and clean them up afterwards?
Help
ok i need some help. what do you guys think i should do about the registry stuff posted earlier. For
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browswer Helper Objects\{CC59E0F9-7E43-44FA-9FAA-8377850BF205}does the hex code ever change or can i tell it do delete that key every time?
I guess the same goes for the InProcessServer one also. For the utorrent key, obviously not everyone has utorrent so do i just do an ifexist delete thing and keep adding keys for any other ones people report or have something that keeps track of what keys were added or what? I guess another alternative would be to only release the Lite version. So until i get some input, this program is at a stand-still.
Problem
I have the true version of FDM on my computer and after testing your portable version, all the registry keys (like all the firefox downloads are managed by FDM or menu extensions)of the true version were erased.
Check the log:
26/02/08 18:50:28 Autorised value "Download all with Free Download Manager" (new data: "") erased in Browser menu extension!
26/02/08 18:50:31 Autorised value "Download selected with Free Download Manager" (new data: "") erased in Browser menu extension!
26/02/08 18:50:33 Autorised value "Download with Free Download Manager" (new data: "") erased in Browser menu extension!
well...
hm... well my nsis launcher doesn't handle the majority of the registry keys. it only cleans up some other things left behind by the "portable" version from FDM. I guess their portable version isn't as portable as we would like it to be so i might have to cut this app
Cut?
What do you say when you say: i might have to cut this app ?
Portable mode (new) If you
Portable mode (new)
If you want to use Free Download Manager on different computers, you can easily create its portable version and avoid the need to install and configure the program on each computer.
How portable is this and how does it impact this portable test?
that's what i based this dev
that's what i based this dev test on and as you can see there are some problems with it.
Yeah I checked the "create
Yeah I checked the "create portable version"
"Once launched it will register itself on the computer's system and integrates to browsers. And at exit it will unregister itself automatically"
I didn't bother with creating a 'portable' version this way because, well, I dunno, but it registers itself to the browsers (yet not the portable browsers) so I didn't bother to try that one out. Haven't tried the paf.exe supplied here as well...