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Get speed, security, and privacy with Microsoft Edge. Try it now. There are several types of files you can download from the web—documents, pictures, videos, apps, extensions and toolbars for your browser, among others. When you select a file to download, Internet Explorer will ask what you want to do with the file. Here are some things you can do, depending on the type of file you're downloading:. Open the file to view it, but don't save it to your PC.

Save the file on your PC in the default download location. After Internet Explorer runs a security scan and finishes downloading the file, you can choose to open the file, the folder it's stored in, or view it in Download Manager.

Save as a different file name, type, or download location on your PC. Run the app, extension, or other file type. After Internet Explorer runs a security scan, the file will open and run on your PC. Cancel the download and go back to browsing the web. You can also save smaller files—like single pictures—to your PC. Right-select the picture, link, or file you want to save, and then choose Save picture or Save target as.

Download Manager keeps track of pictures, documents, and other files you download from the web. Files you've downloaded are automatically saved in the Downloads folder. You can always move downloads from the Downloads folder to other places on your PC. To view files you've downloaded while using Internet Explorer, open Internet Explorer, select the Tools button, and then select View downloads. All you have to do is copy a URL to the clipboard while JDownloader is running and it will add a new package or set of packages to the Link Grabber with all the files.

Note the JDownloader installer version contains adware. This next download manager program is quite old but has a feature called Site Explorer which allows you to browse websites like in Windows Explorer. FlashGet has more recent versions than the 1. Enter the URL and then you can browse through the site and download the files in any folder. If the site is using FTP, folders can also be multi selected and the files inside those folders will be downloaded.

Only the files inside the root folder will download if the site is HTTP. Make sure to avoid the Google Toolbar offer during install. Download Flashget v1. Popular browser extensions for downloading files in recent times have been DownThemAll! However, there are still extensions available for both Chrome and Firefox that can download files from a website or FTP folder. Note: All the browser extensions below will only download the files from the root folder in the browser tab, they will not recurse into sub folders.

If you select a folder from the download list it will simply download as an unknown file. Chrono Download Manager is one of the most popular extensions of its type for Chrome.

Click the Chrono toolbar button and switch to the sniffer mode with the top right button in the window. Then, cycle through the tabs selecting all the files with the top checkbox, check files individually or use the file type filter boxes below. Download Chrono Download Manager. This is another Chrome extension that downloads a load of files in a folder pretty easily. Download Master works in a similar way to Chrono but is a little more straightforward to use and what you see in the main window is it, there are no separate settings or options windows.

After you press the icon to open the download window all you have to do is check the file extension filter boxes, supply a custom filter or add files manually.

Then press Download. As all the selection filters are in the same window it makes Download Master a bit faster to select multiple files or all files at once. Download Download Master. Simple Mass Downloader is a pretty good option for Firefox since the classic old extensions no longer work. It also has some useful features like being able to add downloads from multiple tabs at once and add automatic folders to directly download files of certain types into specific folders.

The checkbox at the top will select all files at once while the extensions or text filter boxes at the bottom will filter the list by whatever characters are entered.

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago. Active 1 year, 6 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Omar Omar 4, 5 5 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. This answer worked wonderful for me: stackoverflow. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mingjiang Shi Mingjiang Shi 6, 1 1 gold badge 24 24 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Thank you! The download will take a while longer, but the server administrator will not be alarmed by your rudeness.

I get this error 'wget' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Great answer, but note that if there is a robots. See unix. Show 13 more comments. Just found this - Dec It works fine. I got it at sourceforge. Worked fine on Windows machine, don't forget to check in the options mentioned in the answer , else it won't work — coder Doesn't work with certain https.

DaveLucre if you tried with wget in cmd solution you would be able to download as well, but some severs do not allow it I guess — Yannis Dran. Working in March ! Show 2 more comments. Ryan R 8, 15 15 gold badges 75 75 silver badges bronze badges. Natalie Ng Natalie Ng 1 1 silver badge 2 2 bronze badges. Some explanations would be great. What about downloading a specific file type using VisualWget?