How to find Internet Download Manager (IDM) Password?
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Here are the simple instructions to find out your saved password by IDM
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Launch the Registry (start->run->registry) on your system
and navigate to following location
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DownloadManager\Passwords\ |
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Below this key, you will find all registered site names such as http://rapidshare.com
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Click on the site-name for which you want to recover the
passwords. On the right side you will see 2 registry values
"User" & "EncPassword".
[Note: Username is
not encoded, you can double click on "User" entry and see the actual
username]
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Next export it to file by right clicking on site-name key
such as 'http://rapidshare.com' (left side of registry editor) and
then select 'Export'
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Now open the exported file in Notepad and you will see
entries like below
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Windows Registry Editor
Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DownloadManager\Passwords\http://rapidshare.com]
"User"=hex(0):64,6f,77,6e,6c,6f,61,64,75,73,65,72,00
"EncPassword"=hex(0):7f,6e,7c,7c,3e,3d,3c,00 |
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Here simply copy the encoded password
(in above example: 7f,6e,7c,7c,3e,3d,3c,00 ) and paste
it in the above text box.
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Finally click on 'Decode Password' button
to see the original Password.
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