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As backstory: I installed fileserve manager to help me download files from fileserve, and was rather annoyed to put it lightly that it became the default download manager for all downloads in Chrome. I was more annoyed that the option to remove it (via fileserve options) didn't work. So I tried to remove it by disabling the plugin that fileserve had installed. No dice.

I ended up removing the program entirely, and hoping, and it worked, but it did bother me that there did not seem to be a way in chrome to reset the download manager to the default. Is there a way to do that / see what it is currently set as?

Windows 7, using Chrome 13 Dev (but bug was also under 11 (stable))

wizlog
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I had the same problem, but with Free Download Manager rather than FileServe.

The fix for me was to visit chrome://plugins and disable Free Download Manager Click Catcher Plug-In for Netscape, Opera, Mozilla.

Presumably FileServe would be under there too, but if not you might also want to look at chrome://extensions to see if it's installed as an extension (rather than a plugin).

ta.speot.is
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Elsewhere on Google this doesn't have an answer either but maybe:
http://www.windowsvalley.com/reset-google-chrome-to-default-configuration-without-re-installation/

NOTE: You may lose all program settings, bookmarks etc after deleting User Data.

We can restore the first run by simply deleting this file; the file can be found in the root of the installation directory or default locations:

For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application

For Windows Vista or later:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application

In addition, Google Chrome creates a folder User Data to store personalize settings including preferences, history, download list etc. To reset them, just delete all the files and folders from User Data. The locations are:

For Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data

For Windows Vista or later:

C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\User Data

Note: in Vista/Windows 7:

  • Documents and Settings -> C:\Users
  • My Documents -> C:\Users\youraccount\Documents
  • My Music -> C:\Users\youraccount\Music
  • Application Data -> C:\Users\youraccount\AppData

Applies to:

Google Chrome (all version including betas)

Gareth
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Just use the Download Assistant extention. Once installed, go to the options (Wrench>Tools> extensions> and click options under the "Download Assistant") then just select the default download manager you want.

wizlog
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I had the same problem with Free Download Manager. I uninstalled the program but it left the trace in Google Chrome. The message would tell me to remove the plugin called npfdm.dll, but I couldn't find it. It wouldn't work to tell Chrome to ask where to put any downloads, it still tried to go to FDM (Free Download Manager).

Here is the solution I found:

  1. Go to your C: DRIVE or whatever drive your Google Chrome is operating from.
  2. Click on C:\Program Files, then Google then Chrome then Application then plugins and that is where I found the file npfdm.dll.
  3. I right-clicked and deleted it.
  4. Re-started Google Chrome and I am back to the default way of saving downloads.

Hope this helps someone. I am running Windows 7.

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Nano
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Its likely that the file-download application installed itself as the "handler" for the many types of files you normally download. So even though you removed the plugin, the handlers would still try to open the manager for each registered file-type.

Try going into Chrome Options > Under The Hood > Content Settings > Handlers .. and remove any handlers installed that point to Fileserve Manager.

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