If you are using Internet Explorer you might be tired of broken downloads. On the other hand even if you have other browsers like firefox, there is in built download manager, but not quiet powerful and not actually fast enough.
So if you are the one to choose third party download managers there are many download managers. Most of them are sharewares. Sharewares contain ad supported banners or sometimes limited functionality. Some of them are
1. Download Accelerator Plus. Which is a shareware contains ad-supported banners, also has limitations with connections and minimizing to tray.
2. GetRight- It is considered to be best download manager. It is also a shareware and contains limited time functionality.
3. GoZilla - It is a shareware and ad supported banners.
and so.. on..
So at the end of the day, you end up in installing some adware stuff or a time bom which is going to stop working.
There is a totally free download manager, with no limited functionality and is also very powerful. I was using DAP (Download Accelerator Plus) and GetRight earlier. But now i am shifting to Free Download Manager. This is really nice and also has a community server where you can specify whether the file is supposed to be a malware.
Another very good point is it integrates with IE7 both in Windows XP as well as Windows Vista (I have tested on RC2 Windows Vista), and also with Firefox on both platforms. It runs without a single problem.
You can set maximum number of connections and is very much customizable.
So if you want cost free download manager and also powerful one, go and get it.. You can download it from http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/download.htm. Language packs are also available.
Check it out.