Internet
Download Manager has been registered with a fake serial number
I tried
re-patching, reinstalling, but this annoying message was persistent. It was so
annoying that it keeps popping up until you exit IDM.
Many of the
users were experiencing the same problem and the most favorite solution was to
edit the “c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts” file and setting the
address of http://internetdownloadmanager.com and similar domains to local host
127.0.0.1 [click to see].
I didn’t
like the above mentioned way and it felt like having a vasectomy instead of
just putting on a condom.
The other way is the easiest way. After
cracking and patching IDM, just go to the installation folder of IDM “C:\Program Files
(x86)\Internet Download Manager” and rename the “IDMGrHlp.exe” to anything you want
or just delete it. Done!
Rename the
“IDMGrHlp.exe” to anything you want or just delete it
But wait!
Every time you run IDM, there would be a new popup box saying “IDM cannot
find 1 files that are necessary for browser and system integration. Please
reinstall IDM“.
To get rid of it, place anything in that
folder “C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Download Manager“ and rename it “IDMGrHlp.exe“. I made a copy of the
“idmBroker.exe” and renamed it to “IDMGrHlp.exe“.
Make a
duplicate of idmBroker.exe and rename it to IDMGrHlp.exe.
