Drag the shortcut file onto your Desktop. Open the “DeDRM_App” folder you’ve just moved, and make a short-cut of the “DeDRM_Drop_Target.bat” file (right-click/Create Shortcut).Drag the “DeDRM_App” folder from the “DeDRM_Application_Windows” to your “My Documents” folder or wherever is convenient for you.Read the “DeDRM_App_ReadMe.txt” file that’s in the “DeDRM_Application_Windows” folder!.Open the folder “DeDRM_Application_Windows” that’s in the unzipped tools folder.Unzip the tools archive (by right-clicking and selecting “Extract All…”).Download the latest tools zip archive (link in this post).Double-click the installer “pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe” to run it.This will produce a file “pycrypto-2.1.0.win32-py2.7.exe”. Unzip it (by right-clicking and selecting “Extract All…”).

Download “P圜rypto 2.1 for 32bit Windows and Python 2.7” from.Double-click the installer “ActivePython-2.7.2.5-win32-x86.msi” to run it.Do not use the version from instead, as it is missing some needed libraries)

(Do not download the ActivePython for Windows (64-bit, 圆4) version, even if you are running 64-bit Windows, nor any version 3.0 later.

Download ActivePython 2.7.2 (or later 2.7.x version) for Windows (x86) from.

The DeDRM application identifies an ebook’s format, and then removes the DRM from that ebook by running the appropriate DRM removal python script. If you don’t want to use calibre, for whatever reason, here is an alternative. The simplest way to remove the DRM from your ebooks is to use calibre and the DeDRM calibre plugin, as described in my post DeDRM plugin for calibre: the simplest option for removing DRM from most ebooks.

Post updated on 22nd March, 2013 System Requirements: Windows XP and above.

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