How To Fix IDM Has Been Registered With The Fake Serial Number Popup Error

Nowadays, everyone is using IDM, right? Internet download manager or simply IDM is used to download any files from the internet with blazing speed. That is why IDM has become much popular. Have you ever experienced or faced a problem like IDM has been registered with a fake serial number pop up message after installing IDM on your Windows computer/PC?

IDM as being the priority choice for most users. It is not free. After 30 days trial period, IDM user has to buy a license key or serial key to activate it. well if you can't afford the paid version you can also download IDM crack. If so, then definitely this article will help you a lot. This article will guide you through fixing IDM has been registered with a fake serial number or the serial number has been blocked error message.

Almost everyone is aware of ‘Internet Download Manager’ (IDM). You might have been using this application since it helps you to download files from the web at high speed. I would say, this is from one of the best tools to be used to download files from the internet. But you may have been facing the pop up that ‘IDM has been registered with the Fake serial number ’.

Fix IDM has been registered with a fake serial number

Method 1: Fake Serial Number IDM Solution (Tweaking IDM Files)

You can just tweak some Internet Download Manager files from the installation directory, and get rid of fake serial number IDM pop-up. This is one of the easiest ways to fix IDM has been registered with a fake serial number problem. You don’t have to be a tech master or coder to perform this, all you need is to follow the steps mentioned below.

#1. Open window explorer and navigate to the ‘Internet Download Manager’ folder in program files.

Open ‘Internet Download Manager’ folder to see the list of files as shown below:

#2. In the open window, search and delete the ‘IDMGrHlp.exe’ file. And copy the ‘idmBroker.exe’ from the same folder and paste it in the same folder.

#3. Once you are done with Step #2. Now rename the copied file of ‘idmBroker.exe’ to ‘IDMGrHlp.exe’ as shown below:

#4. Now the last step is to restart your system to apply this effect and enjoy the downloading without any interruption.

Method 2: Fix IDM Fake Serial Number Using Hosts File

You can also fix IDM fake serial number problem by editing the Hosts file. If you don’t know about this file, then let me tell you a little bit about this file first.

Hosts File is basically a Windows file that is used by the operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses. You can also bypass surveys online from this website. This file can be opened in Text Editor like Notepad, and you can edit it according to your needs too, but changing anything it in without knowing consequences can lead to system failure or apps crashes, so you should not edit it accordingly.

#1. Open window explorer and navigate to the folder : ‘C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc’. This folder contains files out of which one is ‘hosts’ file.

#2. Right click on that file and choose Open With >> Notepad.

#3. Once you have opened this file in Notepad. In my case I am using ‘Notepadd++’ it doesn’t make any difference.

Now just copy the below lines of code and paste it after the last line in the ‘hosts’ file.

127.0.0.1 tonec.com
127.0.0.1 www.tonec.com
127.0.0.1 registeridm.com
127.0.0.1 www.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1 secure.registeridm.com
127.0.0.1 internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1 www.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1 secure.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1 mirror.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1 mirror2.internetdownloadmanager.com
127.0.0.1 mirror3.internetdownloadmanager.com

Your code looks like this:

#4. Now just restart your system to see the effect. Enjoy downloading without any interruption.

Final Words:

Internet Download Manager is definitely one of the best video downloader app available for all platforms. If you haven’t used this app before, then you should try using it once. IDM fake serial number problem annoys users a lot, though there are many fake serial number IDM fix available.

Note: We have updated a new version of IDM which have no problem about fake serial popup error.

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