Official: SecuROM Uninstallation Here are the uninstall instructions: To remove SecuROM related files please follow the instructions below. Before you start the deinstallation, close all programs which are running in the background, especially be sure that no instance of the Windows Explorer is running. - Open the Windows command box by pressing <Start> and selecting the <Run...> option. Now type 'cmd' (without 's) and press <Enter> on the keyboard. - Please type enter the path to the protected executable, e.g. "C:\Program Files\My Game\game.exe" - Add the following parameter and hit <Enter>: /uninstall - A dialog box will appear. To start the SecuROM deinstallation, press the <OK> button.
In case it doesn't, get RegDelNull from Mark Russinowich It's not a bad idea, to create a resore point first...just in case, ya know Download regdelnull.exe and place it in C:\ Go to "Run" and type in "cmd", then type the following: cd C:\ regdelnull hkcu -s when that has finished just do this again with regdelnull hku -s This way Regdelnull would list all occurrences of illegal/undeletable entries and ask, if you want them deleted or not. To stay on the safe side,make sure you only delete the ones with SecuROM in their name. Worked for me like a charm AS a matter of fact, I "caught" that piece of Sony-Junk through NWN2-Updates. -le
Yeah, le. I found regdelnull, myself and it does what it says on the lid. EA is welcome to my loverly English pounds but what I do with the product is my business. Now all I need to figure out is how to stop stupid Quicktime accessing the internet and aborting my games to tell me, like an excited child who just heard an ice cream van in the street, "ooh, ooh, hurry and download these urgent updates from Apple ...." Go to hell! If I can't figure out how to shut it off (please don't tell me ) I'll uninstall quicktime and make do with WMP ... at least I have that brainless beast tamed ... and it knows better than to interrupt me in the middle of something for something as inane as an update. Sheesh. BTW I wonder why no-one is mentioning that removal of SecuROM makes Bon Voyage unplayable without a no CD crack ...?
Well, I guess, I'll tell you anyways Solution #1: uninstall it alltogether and get http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm instead. (smaller, nicer, less intrusive) #2: run msconfig.exe and disable the quicktime -Update in the Startup-Tab Isn't that just the logical consequence??? You disable EA's protection scheme...and the game refuses to cooperate anymore...that's why I believe downloads for that patch in question are going up lately -le
le, you're a star ... I'm uninstalling QT next time it annoys me. (and BTW I haven't bothered with the official patches since Pets. Pescado fixes the problems quicker and with less just-installed-resettedness ... )
I was wondering that too--everything I've read from Maxis says that you cannot run BV (or H&M Stuff, for that matter) without Securom. But, then again, when the muliptle tour-guide bug came to the surface, their first answer to that was to go download Pescado's patch.
