How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
JacquiES:
Question with the creating an image of my disc and running it from there. This will still work with JM's hacks right? i am assuming it will but just wanted to check.
lefty:
Quote from: lemonfresh on 2007 October 08, 22:01:11
Just the one that does NOT have "classes" appended to the end.
Alright thanks a ton, now I'm one more user who is securom free. I followed all the rest of the steps correctly, though I did not have the uaservice7 file (though I did have the cmdlineext one).
jsalemi:
Quote from: JacquiES on 2007 October 08, 23:22:33
Question with the creating an image of my disc and running it from there. This will still work with JM's hacks right? i am assuming it will but just wanted to check.
Yes, the hacks run with the game; the CD (or image) is only checked to see that you have a legal copy. But running from an image doesn't solve the SecuROM problem, because it's the .exe that installs it as it checks to see if the valid CD is there. You have to run with a no-cd .exe to prevent SecuROM from installing again.
miramis:
I'm a Vista 64bit user and could not find the UAService7 at all, after running through all the other steps though and before rebooting I did see a service belonging to Sony DADC called something like CmdLineEXT_x64 (I forget exactly what it was but it was something very close to that). After the reboot to finish the removal procedures it was gone.
*edited* I forgot to say thankyou to all who have contributed to this thread, I couldn't have done it without you ;)
muridae:
Thanks for starting this thread, Zazazu. It's nice to be able to find the removal information easily. :)
By way of thanks I offer up an easier way of deleting the registry keys via regdelnull that doesn't involve typing in that mindbogglingly long computer specific key.
Replace this step from the first post:
Quote
* Step 2: Remove the Securom registry entries.
The Securom registry entries are deliberately made non-removable by default. In order to remove them download the http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] lNull.mspx RegDelNull registry editing utility from Microsoft and install it on your C partition.
Run the following two commands from a Windows command prompt: "C:\regdelnull HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecuROM -s" and "C:\regdelnull HKEY_USERS\<Computer specific key>\Software\SecuROM -s" where "<Computer specific key>" can be determined by searching the registry for the "Securom" directory key. This "<Computer specific key>" typically has a form like "S-1-5-21-2052111302-1757341266-724545543-500". Once these two RegDelNull commands have been successfully issued the registry should be checked to confirm that these two keys have been deleted. If they are still present they will now be removeable due to the action of the RegDelNull utility.
with this:
Download regdelnull.exe and place it in C:\
Go to "Run" and type in "cmd", then type the following:
cd C:\
regdelnull hkcu -s
regdelnull hku -s
The two regdelnull calls above will scan the whole of HKEY_CURRENT_USER (abbreviated to HKCU) and HKEY_USERS (abbreviated to HKU). It's possible you may find other null registry keys during the scans, since you're not targeting *just* the SecuROM keys doing it this way. regdelnull will prompt you with the full pathname of every key it finds though, which will contain the name "SecuROM" if it's one of the ones you're after, so you can check names and only respond "y" to delete those two.
* goes back to lurking again *
Edit to add: If you're the only user on the machine and log in as administrator, you may find that there's not a key to delete under HKEY_USERS once you've done the delete from HKEY_CURRENT_USERS. The HKEY_CURRENT_USERS subkeys are all built from information in HKEY_USERS at the time you boot the PC, so deleting the key there seems to clobber the other one as well. It's probably as well to run the scan for both just to make sure all traces are gone though.
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