2.

Editing the registry

This is where you clean-up the residual files from registry as well for the complete
removal of Internet Download Manager from your computer.

Step 4–> Click on the Start button and select Run.

Step 5–> In the Run dialog box enter Regedit and hit enter button followed by pressing Yes on
the confirmation window that appear.

Step 6–> Now you will have to select the computer by scrolling till the top of the list.

Step 7–> Now press the keys Ctrl + F together and an input text window will appear.

Step 8–> Now type “Internet Download Manager” in this text window and hit the Find button
next to the window.

Step 9–> A list of all the files and folders associated with Internet Download Manager will
appear now. Now simply select all of them and delete them to remove Internet Download
Manager permanently.

Note: While dealing with the registry files make sure that you don’t tamper any other entry or
key within the system registry associated with any program other than Internet Download
Manager.
3.Finishing the operation

And you are almost done, just restart your PC now to finish this process. The next time your
system will start it will start without any trace of Internet Download Manager files even in the
system registry.

So this is all you need to do to get rid of IDM files even from the registry. Now you can install
other versions of IDM without facing any installation conflict. The steps mentioned above are
applicable to all the Windows version.