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Choose with Care!
Not only is it impossible to download everything, what you download may contain the unwanted baggage of virus and trojan horse code so...

Wherever possible use a Local site. You will usually get a faster file transfer with fewer errors.

Use a Download Manager for increasing the efficiency of downloads.

• https://freedownloadmanager.org/ - Widows, Mac, Linux
• https://jdownloader.org - Widows, Mac, Linux

Download into a pre-determined directory when you select a downloadable file in your Web browser, a dialogue box will open asking you where to save the file. You can then save the file to the folder of your choice. To help find the file later, create and use a single folder for this. Call it say... Download.

File Compression

Most files on the Net are in a compressed form called an archive. The process of compression reduces the size of the file in preparation for electronic storage and transfer.

Popular compression formats include .ZIP, .RAR  and the Windows only format .EXE.

NOTE: Windows EXE files when run will do one of 3 things... Automatically unpack files, Unpack and install software, Run as a Windows Application.

TIP: To avoid unnecessary complications later, copy or move the archive file into an empty directory first, then extract or run it.

File compression and archiving programs recognise not only ZIP and RAR files, but many other file compression formats as well.

Free Archiving Programs...

• Zip Genius (Windows) - www.zipgenius.com
• 7-Zip (Windows) -  https://www.7-zip.org/
• The Unarchiver  (Mac) - https://theunarchiver.com/
• Peazip (Windows, Mac, Linux) - https://peazip.github.io/
• B1 Free Archiver (Mac, Windows, Linux) - http://b1.org/

Keeping Safe...

Viruses are a serious threat to computer users. Files downloaded from the Internet provides a whole new avenue for your machine to get infected, resulting in data being damaged or destroyed.

Anti-virus software which scans incoming files is essential to help prevent this.

To be of any use they must be keep up-to-date in order to detect the latest viruses.

Free Anti Virus Software...

• http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
• http://free.avg.com/
• http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus