How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
lordrichter:
I just want to make some SecuROM stuff clear.
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The easiest way to remove it without using additional software, is to go and delete it from the \windows\system32\ folder (I think the filename is UAService7.exe).
Then make a text file with the same name, in the same directory, and then right click the file, and make it "Hidden" and "Read Only". Then go into Control Panel/Admin/Services and disable/stop the SecuROM service. It will never load OR install ever again, and you are forever ridden of SecuROM but can still play all SecuROM games.
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I have heard that you can change the name of the cmdlineext file, and create a dummie file to turn it off.
Both of these statements are false. SecuROM is much more clever than that. Edit: removed some rattling of the mouth...
virgol:
Quote from: angelyne on 2007 October 24, 23:56:57
Sounds like you might have deleted something by mistake in the registry. You appear to have lost your settings. Like you said no big deal. Your keyboard was reset to the wrong language or to a default language of some description. Go to the control panel and locate the Regional and options applet. Select the middle tab: Languages and click on details. If the default input language is not the one you expected, change it. Make sure that the keyboard you want is listed on top in the installed services list. That's the one the system will use by default. Remove the ones you'll never use, if there are any more.
Thanks Angelyne
I should have known how to do this, was looking in the wrong place!! Like many people I should spend more time exploring windows instead of waiting until I need to find something. :-[
Tina G:
I followed the steps to rid my system of Suc-u-rom. It worked beautifully! It was NOWHERE to be found. I was happily playing my game with all the expansions until something totally un-related got borked and I decided that a total re-install was neccessary. After the game was completely gone, I checked the registry to make sure it was gone from there too and guess what I found?
Apparently the damned game installed Securom during the UN-installation process. Now THAT is what I call ridiculous! >:(
Li'l Brudder:
Lemme guess.
IT'S TRUE! YOU SAW IT ON THE NEWS!!!!1
lordrichter:
Quote from: Tina G on 2007 October 26, 02:35:35
Apparently the damned game installed Securom during the UN-installation process. Now THAT is what I call ridiculous! >:(
Hee Hee Hee. :) SecuROM is not installed while uninstalling. You never actually removed the SecuROM program, so next time you ran Sims 2 BV, it recreated all the stuff you removed.
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