How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
Lulz:
First off, I love this thread. SecuROM is the enemy. But after going through a little over half of it, I still have a question. I have every expansion except Pets installed (get to that in a second) with every patch (except Pets, obviously), and I just downloaded the no-CD crack from gameburnworld (Sims2ApartmentLifev1.16.0.194NoDVDFixedexeEng.rar, in case that matters at all? I checked, and it matches the version of the patched game I have installed). But, if I happen to, by some miracle, find my Pets Disk 1 (It sort of disappeared, I guess, but I do have the other disk), how would it work if I installed it? Meaning, do I just install that, grab the patch, and then install the no-CD crack version for the patched Pets? Would I then use that no-CD crack shortcut to run the game, or would I just not download the no-CD crack for Pets and keep using the Apartment Life shortcut? On my other computer, before I knew about SecuROM and it's evil nature, and back when I still had my Pets Disk 1, I installed all the expansions in order, because I could xD So, now I have no idea how to go about this whole installing Pets last thing -- if I do find it. If not, I suppose this is pretty much completely irrelevant. ::)
dragoness:
You always use the No-CD .exe for the latest EP you have, as that's what will try to run when you start the game.
The only difference is M&G because, despite it being marketed as a stuff pack, it runs from its own CD, has its own .exe, and thus needs its own No-CD file. If you do not have M&G, but you have AL, then yes, AL is the latest one.
Mootilda:
The early SPs also behave like EPs and require their own no-cds... I believe that this just applies to Family Fun and Glamour Life.
[Edit: fix typo]
PA:
OK, I've got a question...
Santaroth tossed BV down my chimney today, and I happened to strongly suspect this would happen, so I've had the SecuROM removal tools, latest EA BV patch, many MATY game-fixing hacks, and the No-CD crack for BV v1.10.0.130 ready to go for a bit.
I've run into a bit of 'trouble' following the instructions. After installing BV, I patched it, renamed the BV .exe, put the no-CD crack in its place, then directed all my shortcuts to it instead of the launcher. The BV disc is now safely ensconced in its clamshell where it will never ever touch my computer again if I can help it--I haven't started the game from the regular .exe. I tried the cracked .exe, game started fine, so I quit without playing and went onto the "kill SecuROM" steps.
I looked at my registry--SecuROM is there just as I expected it to be. Running regdelnull this way: "C:\regdelnull HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecuROM -s" and this way "regdelnull hkcu -s" gives me no results, says the scan is complete. I did the same with "hku -s", scan turned up nothing. "hklm -s" brought up a few, but none that were related to SecuROM, so I left them alone.
Doing the uaservice7 step predictably came back as being unable to be performed because I installed BV as an admin. "regsvr32 /u cmdlineext.dll" did what it should. Rebooted, deleted that .dll. Went to the Documents and Settings step--found no folder for SecuROM anywhere.
Here's the question(s): Is this expected behavior? I have a few other games that use much older versions of SecuROM (KotOR and KotOR II), so is it expected that the registries would be there but the rest wouldn't be? Is it safe to wholesale delete the SecuROM registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER? I can haz SecuROMless computer nao?
witch:
If you were running in administrator mode, then you wouldn't have got SecuROM from BV. You have to run the actual exe to catch it. You may have SecuROM pre-existing from something else.
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