The installer is typically named IDM_v6.x.BuildXX.exe . 3. Silent Installation Command-Line Switches Based on reverse engineering and vendor documentation (Tonec Inc., 2024), the following switches work for recent IDM versions (6.40+):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tonec\IDM] "Serial"="ABCDE-12345-FGHIJ-67890"
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DownloadManager] "DefDownloadFolder"="D:\\Downloads" "MaxParallelDownloads"=dword:00000008 "SilentUpdate"=dword:00000001 5.1 Group Policy Startup Script Place installer on a network share ( \\domain\sysvol\IDM\install.bat ): idm silent install
reg import IDM_prefs.reg copy /Y idm.settings "%APPDATA%\IDM\" Example IDM_prefs.reg :
Example IDM.ini :
"%ProgramFiles%\IDM\Uninstall.exe" /S Or using built-in Windows uninstaller:
IDM_v6.42.Build25.exe /S /verysilent /norestart The installer is typically named IDM_v6
[Setup] Dir=C:\Program Files\IDM Group=Network Tools NoIcons=1 AutoStart=0 IntegrateWithEdge=1 IntegrateWithChrome=1 DownloadFolder=D:\Downloads MaxConnections=8 Launch with:
if ($process.ExitCode -eq 0) Write-Host "IDM installed successfully" if ($LicenseKey) Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Tonec\IDM" -Name "Serial" -Value $LicenseKey -Force Write-Host "License key applied" idm silent install