Talk:GetRight

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Is this an advertisement? I don't like the product. it cost me 3 days of my life before I dumped it for another brand. There is a problem if you lose the link to your original site and it goes looking for alternate mirrors and the one it finds is a log in site.. It erases all progress so far and replaces it with the log in url. 0k file. :(

An ad? It may be, the program is one of the more established managers and it's features, ease of use and stability are much better than even Firefox's best (and only) integrated download manager. As far as I know the program contains no spyware, it has never caused me any problems and I have always used it quite simply because it is the first manager I found on Google all those years ago and it has never failed me. I'm sure there are better programs, better looking ones, faster running, sleeker and full of useful features such as dancing pigs and the numa numa song when your download has finished, but this has served me well. I don't work for Getright either, I just forgot to sign in >.< 202.191.107.40 12:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC) (usually JayKeaton)

Just got the new version now, looks like they added a "would you like to instal desktop armor" or summat at the end, it is optional, but i would never use the armor thing JayKeaton 12:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Advert?

Thought I'd give my penny's worth ;) I think the programme is very useful and widely used therefore warrants the article, but yes it is important that it doesn't read like an advert. I've therefore made a few changes which I hope will help us reach that goal. I've also added the citation needed to my comments about IE users, because whilst I know that to be true I need to find some evidence when I get a moment :) Paulfp 12:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (One of) the first Windows download managers?

I've been using Getright since around 1997 or '98 (when I was still in high school). I remember switching briefly to Go!Zilla, and then to DAP, and remember switching back when all those other download managers got a bad rep from all the GAIN related, Gator infested, adware whatever-stuffs, while Michael Buford declared that he has exorcized GetRight of all spyware / adware. And if I'm not mistaken, GetRight had by then replicated DAP's multi-mirror "download-accelerating" capability. I first downloaded GetRight for its download resuming capabilities.

I don't have any web-based hard evidence verifying any of the above claims, other that what is recorded in my brain from actual lived experience. Don't take my word for any of this.

From my first use in the late 90's I have yet to buy a GetRight license. But I sure hope that this little blurb makes up a little bit of the very much that I owe him in prevented lost downloads. So like, thanks Michael!

--Lemi4 16:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)