How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
sluggo:
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.
Just so you know, here in Michigan, US, they *have* to supply a disc. If not, they have to send you one *free of charge.* This I know, because I receive a "notice of settlement" and a restore disc 3 years (!) after I replaced the HP with a computer that actually worked.
morriganrant:
Quote from: sluggo on 2007 October 31, 12:54:36
Just so you know, here in Michigan, US, they *have* to supply a disc. If not, they have to send you one *free of charge.* This I know, because I receive a "notice of settlement" and a restore disc 3 years (!) after I replaced the HP with a computer that actually worked.
Well, here in Louisiana, that doesn't do me much good. When my family purchased a computer for me a few years back I realized there were some pretty major disks missing from the package. I have my family call them up to see if it had been just some kind of mistake, alas, no. They just walk you though making your own restore disk, the bastards. That was a few years ago. This practice continues today. On my currant pre-built, I at least got a deal, it was their last display. It would have cost me more to build one and I had a very small budget. Still pissed I couldn't reformat it, I'm still finding random useless programs, and then there's programs that I'm not even sure I need currently, gah. this thing is a mess.
jolrei:
I used to get pissed off with computer shops that did that. I got to the point where I would tell them that either they provided me with disks for all software, drivers, and extras they were loading, or they could do without my business. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't - well, if you consider that I only bought from people who supplied disks, then it worked every time ;D , but some stores did not get visited again. Fortunately, Ottawa is (in addition to being a government town) a high tech centre of the Empire, so there's a lot of choice of vendors.
unregister:
Quote from: sluggo on 2007 October 30, 13:18:28
Well.. what I usually do when I find something I don't recognize in my registry (re: OCD), I'll google it.. and not just check out the first hit on google. That usually lets you know what you've found in your registry .
Quote from: WandaAnn on 2007 October 29, 18:39:38
I tried following the instructions, but I didn't have anything with uaservices.7,
Hopefully you typo-ed and meant "uaservice7.exe" If not, search for it again and get rid of it as noted. Remember, it won't be there if you installed on your Master/Administrater account.
Another note: the "backweb." Find a safe way to get rid of it. Regardless of what anyone has ever told you about it, it is Evil, Forced Maulware. My HP machine had it so that HP could upload updates at their leisure. well.. it seamed to always be connecting to HP's site and using "downtime" on my access to put their bullshit on my computer. Get rid of it, it's evil.
Hi Sluggo,
Thank you for your response. Yes that was a typo. Yes again, as I did install on my Administrator account, so that does explain why I couldnt find it. I was able to finally remove the "backweb". That is one nasty sucker. It seemed to have been everywhere on my pc. It does appear I have it completely removed. I also used the Window Washer and did a complete search to see if anymore places remained. I believe I can claim success. Thank you again!
FourCats:
I just ran regedit. There is so much in there. Is there a program (either free or cheap) that you recommend to use, to clean that up; so that only what I really need is in there?
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