How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
J. M. Pescado:
Proprietary pre-installed spyware is exactly why you want to ALWAYS reformat a preloaded computer. Plus they tend to partition the drives funky.
Zazazu:
...and give you 40 versions of AOL and MSN you'll never use.
morriganrant:
Yeah well, aparently they caught on to people reformatting as soon as they took their machine home. They no longer supply you with a disk of your OS. They instead force you to make a system restore cd. That way, in the event that something goes wonky you reset your system to they way they packaged it for you, with thousands of programs you don't need.
jolrei:
Quote from: morriganrant on 2007 October 30, 20:12:52
Yeah well, aparently they caught on to people reformatting as soon as they took their machine home. They no longer supply you with a disk of your OS. They instead force you to make a system restore cd. That way, in the event that something goes wonky you reset your system to they way they packaged it for you, with thousands of programs you don't need.
Yeah, my wife's laptop was like that. Yet another reason to build your own rig, if you can. Fortunately, with Vista out, copies of XP become "trailing edge" and therefore cheaper.
claudiasharon:
Just wanted to thank you for this post. I hadn't even heard about this until I was looking at something else here and saw a link to this post mention. Then my 10 page reading day began...and then my "...I miss everything, don't I?" and then finally said goodbye to SecuRom (it was sad to see me go).
Then I go to sleep, and the next thing I know, I'm waking up to a nightmare about SecuRom taking over my computer. Go figure. :D
But yay and thanks for giving me an...interesting read...and for telling me how to get rid of it (really not that hard, at least it was easy for me). Because without this helpful post, I'd have probably not even heard anything about it and my Sims would've kept acting wonky. They were fine, I install BV and then they were mean. I figured it was because...I had too much sims crap or something. Or I just spent too many hours simming. But then after I read all this and got rid of SecuRom...suddenly my Sims went to how they used to be (since nothing else I have on my laptop is SecuRom, I made sure to check on that).
Thanks, thanks again and you are definitely more awesome than me (since I only did all this stuff yesterday and thought I'd share today).
*goes back to lurkdom*
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