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Improve this answer. Add a comment. Likely not. Suraj Rao TomTom TomTom 1. Thank You. I 'missed' the Memo, because I'm still a programming Beginner.

I'll change WebClient to HttpClient and do some experiments with it. Well, you likely missed the memo because you followed some older tutorial somewhere - they started changing it some time.

Yes, i think i followed an older one. Therefore i'm thankful for your Answer. Theodor Zoulias Theodor Zoulias It does not matter how many parallel requests you do as long as you do not change the limitations of the http side - which is limited to 2 requests in parallel. Without those, you would overload the server, not wait for hours and get the results.

As it is, the processing is limited to 2 parallel requests. Smutjes: It would be very valuable for the broad public on this site if you could test the code suggested by Theodor Zoulias and publish the results here. Also, it would be very interesting and valuable if you could increase the number of concurrent connections using HttpClientHandler.

MaxConnectionsPerServer I guess and published those results as well. KalleSvensson see my Answer above stackoverflow. Smutjes: Thank you very much for your effort and this feedback. I understand that you complete the task within ca 40min It would be very interesting to know how DefaultConnectionLimit affects the result, e.

Another thing worth understanding is the difference between using ServicePointManager and HttpClientHandler as the former should not be used for new development. Smutjes: I know that I'm trying to load you with additional work, but you have a unique test environment and this knowledge will be very useful for yourself as well as for all the others. Show 3 more comments. Smutjes is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.

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A few years back I remember trying FDM and noticed thru currports that several strange ip addresses kicked in when downloading. So, I decided to give it a whirl again with the current FDM version.. I then used Fiddle to check out more on what was happening.

The IP Porn sites are hosted, and the somewhat popular GOTD is hosted by the company. There is activity to a php page and server before that page gets loaded that is hidden unless you track the activity of FDM.

In this case, you use the program and the price is data collection it seems. When I opened FDM, no outbound traffic was observed. Load the url and look at it. Note: I have automatic updates turned off, I do not use the mirrors option, I do have "display opinions when downloading" checked, I do not check downloads before downloading if they are malicious.. No other outbound connections are made except the actual downloads.

No information about what I am doing is sent. Also note that the address I captured FDM contacting is. Mozilla had one of these. The -c parameter should be mentioned to continue an interrupted download as should be the wgetrc file. DownThemAll for Firefox is the best of the best. A free Firefox add-on, it supports multi-threaded downloads, pause and resume, and can download all media pictures, MP3s, etc.

Used to use free download manager before migrating to win 7 now the only thing I can get to work is FF downloader.

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You can also open File Explorer by right-clicking the Windows Start menu and selecting File Explorer from the menu, or by clicking the folder icon on the taskbar.

Set your PC to show hidden files and folders optional. If you want to accurately search for the largest files on your PC, it can be helpful to include hidden system files in your search. Just keep in mind that you shouldn't delete hidden system files because they are usually required by Windows to operate. If you want to delete large system files, such as old system restore points and old updates, use the Disk Cleanup Tool instead.

To show hidden files and folders: Click the View tab at the top of File Explorer. Click Options in the upper-right corner of the window. Click the View tab at the top of the new window. Select Show hidden files, folders, and drives and click OK.

This displays all of the drives connected to your PC in the right panel. The search bar is in the upper-right corner of the File Explorer window. This tells Windows to display every single file and folder on your computer. It also opens the Search tab at the top of the screen. It will take a while for all files to appear, but you don't have to wait. Just go to the next step.

It's in the "Refine" section of the toolbar at the top of File Explorer. This opens a menu of different size ranges for files. Once you do this, File Explorer will take a few moments to fetch and display all files that are larger than 4GB on your PC.

If, instead of files, you see "No items match your search," you don't have any files that are larger than 4 GB.