uaservice7.exe removal

[TallyHO]

tried the flwed demo uninstalled it within minutes or thought i did
NOW HOW DO I GET RID OF UASERVICE7.EXE?
STOPPED THE SERVICE DELETED THE EXE
WENT TO THE REGISTRY TO FIND THAT EVEN WITH MY ADMIN RIGHTS I COULDNT REMOVE THE SECUROM KEYS!!!!!!
FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND I FIND OUT SECUROM ARE SONY!
I SEE CLASS ACTION COMING
NOW HOW DO I REMOVE THIS **** FROM MY PC??!! I REPEAT MY PC!!!
NOT YOURS MINE
HOW?
madred: madred: madred: madred:

[Understudy]

1. Uninstall the game as normal.

2. Manually delete the game directory (typically \Program Files\Atari\Crashday-demo\

3. Go to Start>Run and type "Services.msc" (without quotes) and press Enter.

4. Go to the 'Securom User Access' Service, double click on it, click Stop and then set it to Disabled.

5. Go to \Windows\System32\ directory and delete the UAService7.exe file.

6. Go to Start>Run and type "sc delete useraccess7" (without quotes) and press Enter.



Note: This Service may be recreated by one of your other SecuROM games, in which case you will have to keep it running to play them.



The following steps are very risky and only for people who are certain none of their currently installed games use or need SecuROM:



7. Go to \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ and delete the SecuROM sub-directory.

8. Go to Start>Run and type "Regedit" (without quotes) and press Enter. Then find the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SecuROM] key and delete it if possible.

Note: If you can't delete the registry entries, right click on the regkey, and select permissions... then grant yourself full control. Easy really.

Usual caveat on messing with the registry, its your choice, I'm not suggesting is a good idea

[TallyHO]

[QUOTE=Understudy]Note: If you can't delete the registry entries, right click on the regkey, and select permissions... then grant yourself full control. Easy really.

Usual caveat on messing with the registry, its your choice, I'm not suggesting is a good idea[/QUOTE

Even with full control you are still not allowed to delete the REGISTRY KEYS!!!
so it isnt that easy is it??!!!!

I shouldnt have to do this at all!
what bloody right do you have to install a service that isnt even mentioned in your eula, on my machine!!!!?????

[Understudy]

Look, calm down, I'm trying to help you... :nono:


Its not Atari, its sony's SecureRom thats the problem, and it ships with many, many games, not just Atari games. rolleyesa

[Fluxx]

Understudy's quite correct there.

Please treat him (and others on this forum) with the respect he deserves..... :)

[TallyHO]

Look, calm down, I'm trying to help you... :nono:


Its not Atari, its sony's SecureRom thats the problem, and it ships with many, many games, not just Atari games. rolleyesa
ummm its ataris problem cos there using the copy protection and forcing it on there customers first we had to suffer Starfarce now this!!!
and i know my pc very well and the only game that is using S7 was crasday
i'm the one with some kind of unremovable wart stuck on my pc by your game
Of course its ataris Problem why do you think you didnt make any money last year??
and you think with your platitudes is doing your job by patronising me
? telling me to calm down?
dont tell me to calm down! tell me how to remove it!

[Understudy]

For the record, I'm not an Atari employee - none of the mods here are. We do not get paid by Atari to do this, its done in our free time, because we enjoy the community here and want to put something back. :respect:

Obviously it seems ridiculous that DRM is put on a demo. The reason for this is, apparently, that if its not in the demo, then it makes it easier for crackers to spot the changes that they need to make to the final game release.

It seems that the permissions on the reg keys are there because the demo has a 50 execution limit, and removing this key would allow this limit to be bypassed...

I've spend several hours of my personal time, investigating this for you... I am trying to help.

[TallyHO]

ok m8 but you can understand my dilemma i've never pirated games
and i have found out SF has been trashing anything plugged into a ide channel
but at least you can remove it
now i am faced with s7 i might as well give up buying games just stick with the 100's ive got and unplug myself from the net
if the software i'm buying or getting free is being supplied with nastiness i dont want on my system but your cracker can play this stuff without any of the above grief
so now after cleaning my pc's of sony rootkit they do it to me again
u can understand my anger
and my anger is directed at the industry that is killing its self!
because i love games and have in the past always been supportive of the industry
but of late with SF and now securom7 now added to the list of dont install games
what am i to do??

[TallyHO]

:bravo: hello i'm still waitng :bravo:
reg entrys still there ! haven been able to remove it!!!!
isnt this illegal like somekind of cyber invasion?

[BOFH1971]

Yes DRM is a nuisance and the wrong way to go about protecting software.
all I can say to atari is please take a leaf out of valve's book.
you mess with the code in HL2 and you are more than likely to get banned

Steam is a great way of selling games, and keeping them up to date.

now dont go creating your own atari either, it will just clog up the system tray.
one nice big distribution system will do, cheaper games for us, less piracy for you. done ....

[TallyHO]

i think there losing more money really because its got to the point of unless i'm sure about the poxy protection system i wont even dl or read a review
thought i was safe with s7 but they must have messed it up with there 50 go limit
this is what happens when clueless tools start running creative industrys
most people i know buy there games, a lot will obtain pirate copys first because they no longer believe the hype
how many times you bought the latest and greatest game to find out its rubbish
and the reviewers where very drunk/blind/bought or know nothing about games and blagged the job
console gaming might have brought the industry lots of money but sure has dumbed down the games
how many cpu cycles are wasted decrypting game files think how much faster games would be if they didnt have those huge encrypted compressed files
i dont blame the pirates because i dont think it harms the industry as much as the way publishers and developers treat there customer base
basically any protection system can be cracked including steam so making your paying customers jump through loads of hoops and have god knows what installed on there pc's to defeat pirates is insane when all it does is alienate there customers who will in turn, turn to pirated software to totally avoid the drm/copy protection as soon as that happens which it will goodbye industry :salut2:

[BOFH1971]

it might be possible to ***** steam
but hey, when the find out they will ban the users doing so, and gaming is no fun when you can't play with others
:)

funny where I used a common word for circumventing protection, it appears to have been censored however when written in the past tense cracked is ignored

[TallyHO]

oh i totally agree steam will catch you and kick you it happens all the time on server no steam id booti think the best way of dealing with piracy is good multiplayer content online cd checks i really dont mind but i do my stuff other than the game being installed i dont like the fact that loads of our cpu cycles is spent decrypting huge cab files then spraying em back on too our hard drives anyone played boiling point? you have to defrag before and after
these copy protections are crippling there own games performance which is bad
but the downside of steam,ncsoft is the the 8-9gb installs you end up,download encrypted content, then unzip to game folder :rolleyes:
10 games per 100gb
too much console thinking coming on too the PC platform
i'm missing a fair few games some I really,really wanted to play but if its going to cost me an optical drive,hours spent on net trying to remove leftovers
i might not bother
RETRO is the way to go wonder how fast defender go's on my box :)

[BOFH1971]

Yes I have to agree with you there, Command and conquer red alert actually ruined an older cd rom drive , yes it was an old 8 speed but was fine for the computer, deliberate errors on the cd caused it to rescan over and over and after about a week playing the drive gave up.

well hopefully we will see more of Valve's style of game that doesnt go mental on the hard disk.

Good luck sorting out your registry, btw have you tried removing it in safemode also do a further search for anything that might trigger it to re-install istelf.

[TallyHO]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=48382
http://www.glop.org/starforce/

a few mags are actually warning there readers that game contains starforce
others are boycotting starforce protected games, even the whole publisher who use it
DRm is already a big issue but with the release of Vista end of 06...more likely 07 its going to become an even bigger one especially with the growth of HTPC's

oh i could witter on for ages :)

thanks, :)
i'll sort the registry out eventually but the point and princple is That i shouldnt have to ! :rolleyes:

it really shouldnt have been there in the first place :nono:

ooh this looks promising for those with the same problem
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,15355157

[leerees]

i think there losing more money really because its got to the point of unless i'm sure about the poxy protection system i wont even dl or read a review
thought i was safe with s7 but they must have messed it up with there 50 go limit
this is what happens when clueless tools start running creative industrys
most people i know buy there games, a lot will obtain pirate copys first because they no longer believe the hype
how many times you bought the latest and greatest game to find out its rubbish
and the reviewers where very drunk/blind/bought or know nothing about games and blagged the job
console gaming might have brought the industry lots of money but sure has dumbed down the games
how many cpu cycles are wasted decrypting game files think how much faster games would be if they didnt have those huge encrypted compressed files
i dont blame the pirates because i dont think it harms the industry as much as the way publishers and developers treat there customer base
basically any protection system can be cracked including steam so making your paying customers jump through loads of hoops and have god knows what installed on there pc's to defeat pirates is insane when all it does is alienate there customers who will in turn, turn to pirated software to totally avoid the drm/copy protection as soon as that happens which it will goodbye industry :salut2:

You need to sit down, take a long deep breath and then call a counsellor.

The service that is left on your system (used by hundreds of thousands of other games) in an idle state uses 0.0 CPU cycles and about 70K of RAM.

It is not cyber invasion, it is a copy protection method to stop people using pirated CD's, the same as DRM stops people from illegally copying and distributing pirated music and films.

There is no point in uninstalling it, because another game will put it back on.

If you don't like it, sell your PC and take up golf. And don't start complaining about companies putting there logo's on golf clubs and invading your privacy.