RapidGet WTF!

OK, maybe post doesn't belong in this section but it is regarding a freeware app. An app that is not working as of yesterday on my PC and I smell a rat. A big, micr@soft-sized rat.

Anyone who has a RapidShare.de account knows about RapidGet. It is the downloader they provide and it is handy as hell. It is more reliable than Flashget and will tell you whether or not the RapidShare.de links are active links. There are a bunch of other nice features but that ain't the problem.

Problem is that after six months of no problems and a TON of stuff downloaded downloaded by me with the app it simply won't run now. When I try to run it from the RapidGet portion of the RapidShare.de website I get this message on my PC:

"RapidGet.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

huh

That's crap. It has been valid day and night until my most recent micr@soft update. Now micr@soft is apparently locking me out of RapidShare.de the only way they know how. Maybe that's why the new RapidShare.com doesn't have a downloader - I don't know.

But I do know that I signed on for another month of service from both the .com and .de RapidShare sites and this is just another hurdle in the way. I think it's a micr@soft move to stop what they think could perhaps be piracy of some sort (or some ridiculous notion like that). What do you think? Is there any way around this?

Am I paranoid or am I right? Moonman - you use RapidShare.de so you would have an answer. Can you use RapidGet still? Anyone else? Am I nuts or am I right on the money on this little theory of mine?

Craptastic. Next thing you know there won't be any more RapidShare. That's why I'm keeping my subscriptions limited to month-to-month. And Bill Gates can kiss mine where the sun don't shine 'cause I'm still going to use RapidShare.de - I'm just going to have to download links individually. Arrrrrgh!

:ftw:

Simply uninstall & reinstall perhaps ?

Nah, it didn't work. Anyway RapidGet doesn't want you to install (or so says the website) you just run it directly.

I tried restarting my PC and it did no good. I still think this program has officially made it on the Micro$oft banned list as of yesterday. But it's just a theory.

i stopped using rapget since .com came out, was having problems also. I think .de has limited the speed also for rapget. Use flashget, the speed limit wont be a prob cos of flashget multi connections features.

^^ yes Flashget (jetcar) is far superior...

i like flashget because it fast but half the time the files i download are corrupted and i have to download them again.

I hate fooking hate flashget. Where were all of you guys when I made a few posts about not being able to get the thing to work. I never was able to set the thing up to work. I have been setting all of my accounts to automatically start downloading and the using the Firefox extension "Super Drag & Go". You simply highlight a url and drag it to an empty part of the screen and it opens it in a new tab. Then you repeat and let FF down loader down them. I have never had a dl crash on me, but I do not think you can resume it if it does. Dunno.

I stand corrected on my RapidGet theory as first mentioned. I just now got it to work...kind of. It's a little buggy. It won't paste links I've selected into the linkchecker portion of the app and that's not good. I'll keep trying though. I'm fearful about restarting it because I don't know if it will work again.

I don't know what caused Wyndows to reject it yesterday but I appreciate all the help. Thx to all.