Wally, thank you fot your suggessions! They were read.

There are controversial points, but they are beyond this feedback board

teo, you are right! Pro version allows to get updates. The rest is the same as is Pro.

Craig,
It probably didn't install because your anti-virus software already killed the initial download.
Cripple your Anti-Virus program, download ADM Pro again then reinstall
If you're still having issues, boot into safe mode with networking, then do the steps I mentioned above.

SpacemanSpiff, if all else fails try... reading the readme.txt ALL of it!

SpacemanSpiff, if that is happening in most of cases, is due to antiviruses in your computer, so try to disable all antiviruses for a few minutes of installation then after that allow it.

TK, Try IDM.

Dan, Vista? omg!

Vista? You have bigger problems than it not installing.

Dan, try installing in safe mode

Dan, What did you see or notices?
Just "failed" can be caused by so many things.
Did you see any installation screens? like:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b3p9n8m7aybkmyo/Setup.png

Dan, installed fine on my Vista laptop, you'll need to be more descriptive to receive any help from anyone that just "Installed failed"

Audio ,
As far as I know the safe mode is used for trouble shooting issues like freezing, crashing , etc.
So my question is as follows:
is it safe to use the safe mode when installing a third party (non-Microsoft) program?
Just curious.

Cheers,

consuella

consuella, wouldn't recommend it in most cases because in safe mode you have no protection against anything malicious. If you do use safe mode to install you should do AV scan when you reboot. GOTD's downloads are always safe. Have you tried disabling your anti-virus before installing?

Ian John Corner, You are using WIndows? OMG! sheesh... nothing wrong with Vista that a decent tweak or two won't fix and certainly less intrusive and insecure with your private and personal activities under the operating system than Windows 10! And still patchable EVERY patch tuesday using the Windows Server 2008 patches downloaded and applied manually. And MS Office patches via Microsoft Update automatically. I prefer Vista to Windows 10 so much that despite the GPU failing on my main Vista Laptop I still use it and am using it to post this comment via remote desktop using a £900+ business WIndows 10 laptop with all the bells and whistles as a thin remote desktop client despite its SSD and 16G DDR4 RAM and moderatly large 1TB hard drive.

consuella, scan before you install it in safe mode.

Robert,

Thank you, Robert, for your helpful reply.
I did not have a problem with the installation of this program, though.
I just wanted to know if the advice to install this, or for that matter, any other program coming from non-Microsoft, and often foreign, or unknown sources, in safe mode was warranted and safe.

I much appreciate the explanation and advice you provided.

Best Regards,

consuella

TK, but what has this to do with today's software? You are prattling on about Vista vs Win 10 on your £900+ desktop, which doesn't help anyone decide if the software on offer is any good for them ... Keep to the point, nobody really cares about what you thing which O/S is better. Please keep to the point.

OldGuy, I refer you to several comments and replies I have made today at least my reply was relevent to the current thread which is about vista and this software please do keep to the point yourself and if you must try and censor comments then be fair and nag everyone you consider off topic and do not try and hijack comment threads if you have nothing constructive to say about the thread topic OR todays software! Please do not try and speak for everyone as you are not in touch with the entiire human conciousness or able to read everyones mind unless you believe you are professor Charles Xavier and have access to a real Cerebo? You are and do? Cool what am I thinking now? ... sorry wrong again!

Robert,
Thank you for your reply. Much appreciated.

Cheers,

consuella

Audio ,

Oh, I see. Thank you very much for your excellent advice.


Regards,

consuella

hakah, try installing it in safe mode. I always have problems with this kind of installer, found the only way to do it is in safe mode.

hakah, try installing in safe mode with network support option. Something is corrupting the SSL session to giveaways server or the access to the setup.gcd file. Safe mode with network support switches off most invasive 3rd party services/pseudo device drivers and processes.

Audio , safe mode on its own will never work to allow setup.exe/setup.gcd installation as there is NO network connectivity in Safe Mode, you must be using safe mode with network support! Accordingly if you wish to help other users with themidia wrapped exe issues then you need to specify the right safe mode boot option. That is why people have down voted your advice as it's not helpful!

tinbin, Why is it better?

Al, Because it allows you to download from file hosting sites without much effort on your part.

Deputydawg, Does JDownloader have the same feature set though?

Thank you for your comment!
I hope you turned on browser extensions before wrote your post.
How to turn on browser extension is here http://antdownloadmanager.com/addons_m.php
Also see video how to install and turn on the browser extensions here https://youtu.be/V3J_KpejnwQ

Well well..., I had 1.7.0 from a previous giveaway and browser integration for INSTALLED browsers was fine, I did not try to integrate it into my portable browsers. Works the same in this giveaways version too.

Endomondo, an ANT is a little insect that can carry MANY TIMES ITS WEIGHT! And works tirelessly until the job is done.

Mario, Mario, can you confirm this is the case. We may need clarification from Ant Download Manager's staff

WE're being offered Ant Download Manager Pro (usual cost $22.50)

The website says

http://antdownloadmanager.com/buy.php?lng=en

Ant Download Manager Pro
$22.50
Lifetime license
•Full-Pro version for a unlimited period
•All upgrades are Free
•New improvements and opportunities are Free
•30 Day money back guarantee
•Priority support

Mario, please do not mislead people.
We do not charge money for updates!

AntDM, I think Mario meant updates to the giveaway are not free... which could have been true except that you have offered some new versons as giveaways from time to time. Not every update but certainly enough to prove you do not force us to have to buy an update like Mario implies :)

AntDM, I meant for the GAOTD version of course.

AntDM, Lies, if just popped up for an update, and if I do, it will revert back to the free version and remove the Pro status, so, its a lie, and a con, move along from UNTRUST WORTHY DEVELOPERS

Dear user, updates for all our basic versions of Pro, Trial, Free are free.
For giveaways versions, updates are not available at all. The update function is disabled.
Lack of updates and one-day installation option are the terms of GOTD.
Our updates for the giveaways versions are regular repeated promo actions of GOTD.
Thank you for understanding!

DBpvr, Why are you still using XP? :)

Jerry Mahony, Realistically though, you would not expect any application produced in 2018 to support such an old OS.

PhilS, Realistically you may not expect that but you cannot dictate what other people would or would not expect anything you want them to or not to.... plenty of developers are still supporting XP and some even earlier versions of windows, it is not a problem if they do and just shows versatility if they can support XP and the latest feature update of windows 10 and everything in between only short sighted mercinary capitalists decide to try and force users of older hardware and operating systems to landfill their perfectly functional hardware and software licenses just to prop up rampant capitalism! Such enforced obsolesence is bad for the environment and wastes global resorces. By all means buy new machines if you want or need to but if people are happy with their existing machines they should not be forced to buy new machines or operating systems just to prop up vendors share holders.

It's interesting. I have two desktops. One is running Win 8.1 pro and the other a dual boot with Win 10 pro and XP pro. When I'm uploading youtube videos XP is the only OS that doesn't give me a hard time. I'm sure there's a reason why the other OSs balk with youtube vids, but as long as XP keeps working I have no need to troubleshoot. :)

Funny how everyone asks YOU STILL USE WINDOWS XP ?

52% of all companies world wide still use windows XP

Windows XP is the third most used OS,Win 10 is second to windows 7
https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/591a36391442934d088b58bd-640-480.png

After I removed windows Update and IE and outlook.I also removed Media center and windows media Player it.s never run so well ever

shegeek72, Because it is far better, a hundred million people still use and prefer it.
Also if you update, a lot of other programmes will not work unless you update them too or they cannot be updated.

shegeek72,

Why are you still using XP? :)
Because I don't use my computer to just check e-mail and browse the web. I use it for many other things.

I have had every Microsoft OS, that runs on the standard Intel (or compatible processors), from DOS 1.0 to Windows 10, and even including Xenix. I have been a programmer for over 40 years, so I understand why many users use XP. I use Win 7 mostly, and every so often, check something out on Windows 10. Pretty much 24 hours a day, I have an XP OS running as well.

Due to XP being around for so long that it became very stable, a lot of my software is licensed and installed on an XP OS. Some of those programs are very expensive, due to what they accomplish, and are very specialized. Many of those programs are not licensed to be transferred to another OS, so I have a choice of purchasing another license, or keep running it on the OS that it has always run on just fine. Again, economics. My 64-bit XP computer can have the same amount of addressable memory as any other 64-bit Windows OS. The hardware is the latest that can handle XP. It is not possible to install XP on some modern motherboards, but can often run just fine, and the same for a virtual machine on recent hardware.

Other users may have other reasons or using XP. Some have have hand-me-downs and others may have hand-me-ups. I know of some seniors that their children gave them their old XP computer. It works fine for checking their e-mail and doing some browsing. They are from the generation that did not waste. Some could not afford to purchase anyting different, and of those that could, why would they want to? It does what they want already.

Asking why someone why still uses XP makes no more sense than asking the guy at the car show why he still drives a 1957 Chevy. Right now you are getting that odd look, and maybe they realize no answer will get through. I love when someone aske me, just so I can do what I am doing right now.

Just because someone wants software to run on an XP computer does not make them the fool. They probably have a more stable machine than than the ones laughing at them. I find that those that question why someone is using XP are either younger, or more naive about computers; otherwise, it seems they would know already. If that does not apply, then all that is left is the XP Bashers. GOTD has no need for bashers of any OS.

PhilS,

>Realistically though, you would not expect any application produced in 2018 to support such an old OS.
The "you" you refer to is not "me" for sure.

And why should an application not support XP? There are tons of programs that can run on XP as well as run on Windows 10. The architecture is not all that different. It depends on the compiler used. If the compiler can produce an executable that will run on XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10, why not include the XP market? If the compiler is a Microsoft product, then it will not produce an executable that will run on XP. Microsoft is intentionally blocking the XP OS. Other than that, there is no reason a program developed in 2018 should not work on XP.

As you are about to see, a lot of developers do make their programs work on XP. It comes down to the money. The XP market place is still very huge. The only reason you would shut that off is if you already have plenty of money (e.g., Microsoft) and/or would like to encourage every XP user to purchase a license for a new OS. The software developers of the world would not make any money if someone did or did not purchase a new OS license; in fact, it means that the customer would have less money to spend on their product. These other developers want to take advantage of that market share. It wouldn't matter what version of OS the user has as long as it is 32-bit at least. That is why there are still many programs being developed today that work just fine on XP.

I decided to check GOTD offers to see which ones still support XP. Many still do support XP. If I had listed the programs for all categories, it would be 332 entries long. Here is the list of the video only category:


https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/adoreshare-video-joiner-1-0-0-2/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/7thshare-any-mp4-converter-2/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/adoreshare-video-converter-genius-1-5-0/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/aiseesoft-mxf-converter/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/amazing-hd-video-converter-9-9-9/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/amazing-video-converter-ultimate-1-6/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/apowersoft-video-converter-studio-4-6-1/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/dimo-dvdmate-3-6-1/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/winx-hd-video-converter-deluxe-5-12/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fast-video-downloader-3-0-0-8/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/fast-video-downloader-3-1-0/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/adoreshare-cutome-2-0/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/adoreshare-quick-video-cutter-for-windows-1-0/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/dimo-8k-player-for-windows/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoom-player-max-3/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/wonderfox-dvd-ripper-pro/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/joyoshare-screen-recorder-1-0/
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tightprojector-2-1/

Hopefully, I have made my point.

Gary, Just because some might do, does not mean that others should.

Nobody would expect Windows 95/98/ME because they are too old and no longer supported by Microsoft in any way.

It's just more realistic to support 7 and onwards.