How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Ambular:
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 12, 08:13:09
Haha.. so in other words.. Jase loves you guys?
Jase wears his non-awesomeness like a badge of honor. XD The InTeen is apparently a bit of a monster from a programmer's POV (and even Jase admits this,) suffering from a lot of unnecessary file bloat and badly in need of a rebuild. It's not really his fault--he's still limping along on code he wrote in the early days of Sims 2 modding when a lot of things weren't yet well understood, and it's now got six expansions worth of new features and fixes he's tacked on as best he could. But it also makes so many fundamental changes to the game that a lot of other mods aren't compatible with it, which makes things difficult for the other modders because they'll get bug reports about their own work that turn out to be caused by InTeen incompatibility.
The InSIMenator has also been referred to as "the Puppy Killer" for similar reasons, though Pes seems to have less of an allergy to it...
tabbs:
Ok I installed the game from the CD version, and sadly I also patched it. Man I hope I'm not screwed..
Now I need to really search for this.
I haven't seen any changes on my computer thus far, though I'm still on XP and not Vista but I still don't want it on my system.
And I'm guessing that you can still play the game without it on your system?
Edit to add:
I finally found it. Now because I installed the patch, is it still safe to remove? or am I going to have to re-install all together?
Zazazu:
Quote from: tabbs on 2007 October 12, 14:05:13
Ok I installed the game from the CD version, and sadly I also patched it. Man I hope I'm not screwed..
Now I need to really search for this.
I haven't seen any changes on my computer thus far, though I'm still on XP and not Vista but I still don't want it on my system.
And I'm guessing that you can still play the game without it on your system?
If you installed it from the CD, you have it. Period.
Here's a better way to check: Open up "My Computer". Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME HERE. On the window's menu bar, hit Tools, then Folder Options. Click the View tab. Under "Hidden files and folders" make sure to click on the "Show hidden files and folders" radial button. (Insert beef about Windows hiding crap from computer owners for no valid reason here). Click OK. Now click on the new light-colored folder called Application Data. See a folder called SecuRom? You have it.
I'd suggest having someone a bit more computer savvy carry out the instructions for you. Nothing personal, we all have our levels of comfort with different things.
As for Windows 3.1 being the mark of respect, that's funny. I was programming in BASIC on my Commodore 64 when I was 8 6. I remember seeing the Tandy, but never actually got to play with one. My parents have never been computer-savvy, so I always got to play with the new ones and figure them out so I could teach them.
For general issues of concerns with other hacks, it's really upon the user to go to the site that deals with said hack. Unless all hacks are at one place, you can't expect people to be able to advise you, or to feel the responsibility to. Whining that the kitten killer is screwing up your game here generally gets you laughed at, and gives Pescado an excuse to post the domokuns.
jsalemi:
Quote from: mitchellcjs on 2007 October 12, 06:06:25
MS DOS? Anyone remember Apple IIE? The Commodore 64? Programming in BASIC, "Hello World", backing things up on real cassette tapes, the innovation of the "hard" floppy, now THOSE were the days.
Heh -- remember Logo? I first started programming in that on an Apple II in the local library when I was killing time waiting for my then-wife to pick me up after work. My first computer was a Franklin Ace 1200, which was Apple II compatible and also had a CPM board in it so I could run Wordstar and SuperCalc. I remember when I bought it that the salesman swore to me that 64k RAM was more than anyone would need for the foreseeable future. :)
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 12, 06:20:14
Anniversary uses an earlier version of 7, I don't believe the earlier version installed uaservice7.exe, if it did I'd have that on my system and I don't.
uaservice7.exe is only installed if you install/run a game with a user account that doesn't have admin privileges. It's used by SecuROM to bypass the restrictions on a regular account, and give itself admin privileges. Which is one reason why most of us don't like it -- nothing should go behind our backs and give admin rights to a program when we specifically created an account without those rights. And frankly, a program that gives itself admin privileges in an account that shouldn't have them pretty well fits the definition of malware.
tabbs:
I did find it. And I'm going to remove it, although it doesn't look it from my previous post - I do know how to do things on my pc, I'm not as dumb as I sound (read). Anyway I just woke up and this SecuROM thing is very new to me.
While I like BV I'm going to uninstall it all together, but first remove the SecuROM and start new. (Without installing BV I don't like it enough to go through the crack thing. But I might change my mind later, who knows.)
I'm just glad that MATY is here, you guys are the best. /kissass
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