How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
witch:
You probably just don't have that service. Different people have said they don't have all the bits listed. Probably depends on your setup. I'd just carry on with the rest of the instructions if I were you.
Lord Darcy:
Quote from: Solowren on 2008 July 16, 05:30:48
Anything done by Vitality is safe to download- I think they've done pretty much every expansion pack.
Not quite. Their Life Stories ISO and subsequent Repack got nuked. Eventually Reloaded released Proper.
Every major cracking group can drop the ball once in a while. Usually they release Repack, or other group will come up with Proper.
To be sure, you can always check whether any given release is Nuked (non-working, bad crack, etc.) or not at NFOHump. Hover over the nuke image to find out why it got Nuked.
Quote from: witch on 2008 July 16, 06:06:59
Reloaded, is another name I've found reliable.
RZR DEV FLT. Ah good days.
myskaal:
So I went through the steps in the topic post. At the end of it all I somehow lost my HAL.dll for windows.
Going through the steps to try to replace that now but as a heads up for less experienced users .. be careful what you're pressing and typing and if you're not sure find someone who's more experienced in deleting things through the command prompt.
I believe this problem occured when I went ahead with:
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Issue the following command to show the two remaining hidden malformed files: "dir /A". To delete the two remaining hidden malformed files issue the following command: "del /F /AH *". Confirm "yes" for each of the two file deletions of the malformed files.
after not being able to find a SecuROM folder in my Documents and Settings subdirectories.
I only received one confirmation of a file to delete and simply following the instructions to confirm without actually looking at what it was I was confirming has created a massive mess I hope will not cause the loss of everything I had on my hard drive.
But thanks for this post. SecuROM is a nightmare and it's nice to have help around on getting rid of it.
Kazzandra:
Quote from: myskaal on 2008 July 16, 14:49:43
At the end of it all I somehow lost my HAL.dll for windows.
By chance had you recently installed Windows XP SP3?
myskaal:
AFAIK, no. I will not say definately no. My computer did recently install some sort of windows update and reboot itself while I was at work. I only recall seeing the notice it had done so when I returned home and did not check to see what it had installed.
I've started a new topic in regards to my now totally borked computer on the Oops! board. After doing some research on the HAL.dll error I'm not sure if what's happened was caused by my removing SecuROM or if the messing around inside Windows' guts made the OS decide now was the best time to go tits up on me. (I've been waiting for it. I've gone a good 4 years on this install).
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