The Download Manager Trick

Downloading is sometimes, essential, sometimes a passion, and sometimes a compulsion. If one relies on the download capabilities of the web browser, the results leave much to be desired. The speed is slow, multiple tracks cannot be downloaded at a time to be joined later, and resume is not possible should the download be interrupted at any time. These problems are overcome by download managers. There are a number of them e.g. free download manager, Internet download manager, and download accelerator plus. But they have a unique problem of their own. They launch automatically whenever a download is started. If the website does not permit download manager, that download does not take place, and the manager does not let one use the web browser for downloading. There are methods of preventing such behavior of these managers, such as by pressing on some predetermined keys when one clicks on the download links. But these sites do not like key-press clicks too. So I found a solution to this problem. I copied the download manager's installation folder to the desktop, uninstalled the manager, and then launched it by double clicking on its executable file in that copied folder. It worked. Now I launch it only when I want it. At other times, I use just the browser, and the manager does not launch by itself then, because it is not installed on the system.