Note: If the program that you want to uninstall is not listed, it might not have been written for this version of Windows. To uninstall the program, check the information that came with the program

Although I don't really want to be spending time trawling internet sites to find an answer...I desperately want to remove this...and have found this....which I am sure that you are aware of...but as I didn't voluntarily download the programe I cannot get any information....

Well, no. After going all around my computer again....I am not a computer 'techie' so do not know how to build programs or fix problems. So have checked all the obvious places and gone through help and followed all instructions. It is certainly not obvious! I am completely lost as to how it is still the programme that downloads everything.

Any instructions that you send for me...like I said, I am not like most of your other users who are clearly IT people. I'm not completely useless when it comes to computers but will need a little more explanation than most.

Thanks

There's nothing unusual about FDM. It's just another program with an uninstaller included. If it has been installed correctly, and is the genuine FDM build problems with uninstallation has nothing to do with FDM itself. On this note I would like to recommend another great freeware program: Revo Uninstaller (http://www.revouninstaller.com/). If you have Revo on your system you will never experience uninstallation problems again. Period! It also removes traces of programs the built in uninstallers leave behind.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not completely useless when it comes to computers but will need a little more explanation than most.
Thanks

I think I understand your frustration, so do this:
1. Download an original copy of FDM 3.0 from here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freedownload/fdminst.exe
2. Run the FDM installer you just downloaded....Doing this re-registers the files & folders for FDM, but more importantly; the uninstaller!
3. Now go to your Add/Remove Control Panel, and remove it.

If this does not remove FDM, then you have a rouge copy installed to some place other than C:\Program Files\Free Download Manager.
FDM is really, a very good Download Mgr, if you are using an official copy. If it is a rouge copy then you may as well go to the
"Spyware Warrior Forum": http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php to inlist help in removing this rouge.

cdysthe wrote:I would like to recommend another great freeware program: Revo Uninstaller (http://www.revouninstaller.com/). If you have Revo on your system you will never experience uninstallation problems again. Period! It also removes traces of programs the built in uninstallers leave behind.

This is good advise here. It has a small learning curve, so you should pick it up fast.

It seems you haven't FDM itself, but its addon in your browser (Opera, Netscape?). In this case you should find npfdm.dll file on your computer and delete it.

Okay,

Thank you for the replys but this is getting more frustrating by the day.

Thank you for the tip and web page and suggestion of downloading it all again (even though I didn't actively download it in the beginning). Against my better judgement for downloading this I opened the webpage....and I would never give my address on such a website and besides that I don't own a company or work for one or even have a job from the list of jobs there....so cannot do this.

And I really don't like the idea of installing yet another programme.

Alex....what is opera, what is netscape...I have put in npfdm.dll in several ares and still cannot find it.

There must be another way of contacting you other than this online forum thing. I would much rather by phone so you can takl me through this as this is getting out of hand and I really am not IT person and really do not understand what you are all talking about. It is stopping me from download friends photos and other documents. More crucially I am currently desperately searching online for help with a medical condition and trying to find appropriate help and information and simply cannot download a lot of articles because this download manager isn't allowing it. Or at least it is and it is coming up all non-sense.

Help.

Anonymous wrote:2. If you do not see this menu, try Start | Run, then enter "%programfiles%\Free Download Manager\unins000.exe"
AGAIN THIS DOESN'T WORK. I HAVE TRIED IT EXACTELY AS YOU HAVE ENTERED HERE. WITHOUT THE " AND % WITH C:\ IT IS TELLING ME THAT IT CANNOT BE FOUND, THAT IT HAS BEEN MOVED EITHER TO ANOTHER NETWORK OR HARD DRIVE.

Enter it with the " and % and without the C: . So, exactly as I wrote. Do not change anything.

Anonymous wrote:If this will not help, shutdown Free Download Manager (use File | Exit menu in its main window), then search for location of fdm.exe file on your computer, then do this:

THIS I WAS CONFUSED WITH....I COULDN'T FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS.

I think you should get the help of some computer specialist.
I even not sure if you talk about Free Download Manager.

Why do you think it's Free Download Manager?
How does it harm you?
Please provide detailed descriptions with the error messages and very desirably - include the screenshots (see this article to learn how to make a screenshot).

Anonymous wrote:1. E.g. you find it in C:\SomeFolder\fdm.exe. So run this: Start | Run, enter "C:\SomeFolder\fdm.exe" -unregserver.

2. Delete C:\SomeFolder from your computer.

I HAVE SEARCHED AND SEARCHED PUTTING IN FREE DOWNLOAD MANAGER AND FDM BUT IT COMES UP WITH NOTHING.

I AM CURIOUS HOW IT IS EVEN RUNNING! OBVIOUSLY ONLY WHEN I'M ONLINE...WHICH LIKE MARTHA, MAKES ME A LITTLE WORRIED.

OKAY. WELL, I WILL WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN.

THANK YOU ALEX

And I would love to get rid of this little blue and white arrow that is imposed over every window that I open! Thanks