Is it bit torrent?
Mirelly:
Point of information:
Quote from: ritaxis on 2009 January 04, 01:48:47
eta: I don't mind a neutral pronoun, but I also don't mind people knowing I am of the XY persuasion. So you can use "she" if you like it better than "it." I only use the username I do for sentimental reasons.
The appropriate personal pronoun for the "XY" genotype is he. I suggest a more thoroughly developed educational background before taking your butthurt into the realms of junior high-school science before brandishing it around here. The impersonal pronoun is not an insult. Remember that offence is always taken, never given.
Skadi:
Quote from: ritaxis on 2009 January 04, 21:11:07
Every time you run the game from the original exe or from the launcher you are reinstalling SecuROM on your machine.
Yes, I have read this. Every time I play my game I kick myself and I go to the securom instructions and do a search-and-wtf,there's nothing here to destroy!
And yet you seem to miss the part in the instructions about getting the no-cd crack.
ritaxis:
The XY was a simple brain fart. because I'm an old fart, I guess. Not because I don't know those things. And proper reading comprehension will reward you with the information that I did indeed take no offence to the neutral pronoun or even the nickname: I specifically took no offense, and only offered the information as to my own sex out of a peculiar sense of courtesy. The remark I made wasn't "Clitaxis is so insulting, boohoo," but "it could have been cleverer if it was cleverer." Which is a literary critique, not a butthurt. It's not like I didn't know where I was coming for advice: I've been lurking here forever. If I wasn't up to enduring a silly nickname I wouldn't have asked a question here.
Okay, I've been working on this most of the day and I've found a serious related problem, but not the solution. It's apparently a rather common serious xp pro problem which receives a lot of bullshit advice and some reasonable sounding advice, much of which I have followed today to no avail. This is the problem: I'm not just not seeing securom files, I'm not seeing most hidden files. I wasn't seeing any before I diddled around all day but not I see a few uninteresting hidden files here and there.
Several helpful replies to other people with this problem -- none of which mention securom, so I don't know if they're in the same boat as me or in a different boat -- suggest malware and suggest various ways of extending the search for it. I've scanned my computer now more times than I can count with a number of programs (one at a time, not at once), and found a boring treacking cookie. One boring tracking cookie from a boring legitimate site that does nothing else obnoxious. It's removed and irrelevant to begin with.
One suggestion was to go into safe mode and run my AV program from there. That was a pain in the ass, took forever, and found nothing interesting except a list of locked files that look completely vanilla to me. Should I post that? It's probably about as long as this post will be.
One person actually got their hidden files to show by reversing their folder options view tab selections from what they "ought" to be, but that didn't work for me.
One person suggests that security software may be interfering, but I don't know what to do with that suggestion.
edit: Skadi: I thought you were supposed to apply the crack after your system was guaranteed clean? And my understanding is that the consensus is that even if I don't see it, it's there until I remove it. I have the crack, ready to install when I think I'm done with this. If somebody tells me confidently that I should install it now, even though you all are sure that securom is still there, I might essay it.
ritaxis:
I finally found it.
Something I did today made the securom keys visible in regedit, where they weren't before. I don't know which of the things I did cleared up the visibility issue. Probably something about going into safe mode, though, because it was the only thing I had never done before.
I'm really relieved. I was thinking I was going to have to have a professional do this for me.
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