A registering method in an information processing apparatus having a recording medium in which a resource downloader for downloading a resource which is used for an image forming apparatus has been stored has a device searching step of searching for devices serving as administration targets from a plurality of devices connected to a network; and a display control step of display-controlling the device onto which the resource can be downloaded so that the device can be discriminated in correspondence to each resource to be downloaded among the devices searched by the device searching step.