How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Zazazu:
Quote from: Deviancy on 2007 October 11, 00:36:30
Going the the booty route doesn't necessarily mean you'll be avoiding securom. A few of the scenes are pirating the games but using image files instead of nocd cracks to allow the player to just mount the image with daemon, use yasu to hide daemon from securom and then play the game. But securom is still active at that point. A few of the other scenes are still releasing games with nocd cracks, however they're not updating those nocd cracks everytime there's a patch. I mean some games have 3-4 patches before everything is taken care of, can't expect the scenes to keep up with that. But it depends on the popularity of the game, not how many are playing but who. The sims seems to be loved by many but hated by those who are more into the pirating thing. Every time a sims game is pirated a ton of guys bitch about how the game is for women, or they'll download it and swear to everyone they're downloading it for their girlfriend. Which is fitting since in theory, their hand is their girlfriend and it also controls the mouse so it isn't an all out lie.
Deviancy, we're talking about SecuRom as it pertains to playing the Sims2 here, not any other game that someone may get at some other point and choose or not choose to patch. No one here is saying that you must get rid of SecuRom, just if you want to...this is how. The no-CD crack I mention does not contain SecuRom.
Some don't like having SecuRom because they don't like that the EAxis of EAvil installed it on their system without prior notification...not even stating that there was 3rd party software included. I'm one of those. Some don't like having SecuRom on their system because it has caused problems with making other software not work, or CD drives not work, or antivirus programs not work. I'm also one of those.
EAxis patches are notoriously crap which breaks just as much as it fixes. Most of us here go to this site for our "patches" because they work better and don't contain the same bloated twisted twine-code that caused the problems in the first place.
It's not bad advice. It's a solution that you can choose to use. If you fuck it up later by installing something else with SecuRom on it, well, that's your fault. And guess what? You can follow the same directions again and get it off your system.
*gets back in her rocking chair and mumbles about know-it-all kids these days*
Oh, and what kind of stupid guy has to lie and say he got the Sims for his girlfriend? Sounds like someone has adequacy issues. Or someone else is talking out of their ass. ::)
shanpooter:
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"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".
I performed this step and upon restarting my computer, my display settings have returned to the defaults. My desktop wallpaper, the color of my taskbar, the stupid language bar was back, etc. My computer otherwise seems to be running fine, but have I done something terribly wrong here? I know it was this step because prior to doing it I had restarted windows, and restarted again after.
torawashi:
For the people who can't find uaservice7.exe, I had the same problem. I simply ignored the step that called for stopping the process/deleting the file, and the removal worked just fine. I was able to run the game with the no-CD crack, and there's no sign of SecuRom.
Azrael:
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Oh, and what kind of stupid guy has to lie and say he got the Sims for his girlfriend? Sounds like someone has adequacy issues.
I'll admit that I told a few of my friends this very thing. But then, those few particular friends of mine aren't exactly open-minded, so.... I mean let's face it - although it's pretty hard to just come out and assume these things without polling people, but I'd be willing to put money down and say that mostly girls play The Sims. My main reasoning (and I'll admit as well that it's kinda flimsy..) being that it's awfully hard to find a comparable selection of male skins and hair to the female ones... just look over at MTS2... You don't even have to actually LOOK at all of them (though I'm pretty sure most of the male hairdos were designed by girls..) - just the number of pages. Pretty steep difference, really..
Alright, I've talked out my ass enough. Bring on your worst! ;D
Nimmie:
Nevermind. I fixed.
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