My laptop recently had TS2Deluxe and the Bon Voyage expansion pack installed. Both of these include SecuROM. In fact, I have deliberately infected it with SecuROM to show you how to get rid of it. I have since uninstalled both games. You can see what system I am using here, but the instructions on MATY (on which this walkthrough is based) can also be used with other XP versions and Windows Vista. Where there are any differences between these two systems I will try to point them out.
First of all, let's check whether my deliberate infection has worked or - in your case - whether you can find SecuROM on your machine.
1. Click on your 'start' button
2. From the menu that pops up, choose 'run'
Vista users: Skip this step and proceed right to the Vista instructions in the next step.
Now you should get this little box popping up.
1: Type 'regedit' into the text field
2. Click 'OK'.
This will open your registry editor.
Vista users: Click on the start button and type 'regedit' directly into the search box right at the bottom of the 'start' menu. Hit enter and your registry editor will open automatically.
NOTE: XP users, refer to the upper part of the illustration, Vista users, look below
Here is my registry editor. Let's find SecuROM:
1. Click on 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER',
2. Click on 'Software'. Ahh! Found you!
NOTE: At this point my games are no longer installed on this computer. That I have still been able to find SecuROM proves that it does NOT uninstall itself when you remove your game.
Now that we have found SecuROM, let's get rid of it! The first thing you will need to now is to download a tool called RegDelNull. Get it from http://www.reclaimyourgame.com/regdelnull.zip. Basically, this is a utility that helps you get rid of stuff that you cannot delete otherwise.
Extract the downloaded executable file to your C:\ drive. The path to it should be C:\RegDelNull.exe.
Don't try to run this as an application, just close your explorer window and proceed to the next step.
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Now we will use RegDelNull to delete the Securom registry entries. We will need to use the Windows command prompt for this. You can get it up on your screen via the same method we used to open our registry editor:
1. Click on your 'start' button
2. From the menu that pops up, choose 'run'
3. When the 'run' box appears, type 'cmd' and confirm with 'OK'
Vista users: Just type 'cmd' into the start search box and hit 'enter' - it works exactly the same as with the 'regedit' thing above.
You should now get a black box with white writing in it. We now need to navigate to C:\ where we have placed RegDelNull.exe before:
1. Type 'cd C:\'
2. Hit 'enter'.
Where it said 'C:\Documents and Settings\username>' you should now have 'C:\>'.
NOTE: 'cd' stands for 'change directory' and 'C:\' is where you want to go. The colon and backslash are necessary, so type this exactly the way it's here.
Now that you are in the right place, let's start by deleting the SecuROM keys from HKEY_CURRENT_USER:
1. Type 'regdelnull hkcu -s'
2. Enter
Unless you have previously used RegDelNull you should now get a box popping up asking you to accept the licence agreement. Say yes to this.
Depending on what software you have installed on your computer, you may now get all sorts of results. For every single one you will be asked wether you want to delete it or not.
Carefully check whether it says 'SecuROM' anywhere in your entry. As you can see, it does in my case.
At the prompt 'Delete? 
If you have been successful, you should now get this message: 'Key successfully deleted. Scan complete.' (1. in my screenshot)
Now we will need to repeat this process once more for HKEY_USERS:
1. At the prompt type: 'regdelnull hku -s' (2.in my screenshot)
2. Hit 'enter'
As before, check that what is coming up really does belong to SecuROM. When you have conirmed
this, type 'y' and 'enter' to delete. (3.in my screenshot)
You should now get another 'Key successfully deleted. Scan complete.' message.
If you do: Congratulations, key deletion completed!
Now, let's proceed to getting rid of the Securom service and related utilities. These are located in the system32 directory on your computer, so let's navigate there:
1. Type: 'cd windows\system32
2. 'Enter' (1. in my screenshot)
Your should now have a new line starting with 'C:\WINDOWS\system32>' (2. in my screenshot)
Let's deal with the SecuROM User Access file:
1. Type:'uaservice7 /remove'
2. 'enter'
Attention: This step has caused some confusion because some users have been unable to find it. The reason is that the executable uaservice7 belongs to the SecuROM user access service. It's apparently what allows SecuROM to get additional priviledges if your game is run from non-admin accounts on your computer. I have installed and played my games as an administrator, so I get an error alert (see my screenshot).
If you get the same message and you are certain that you have installed and played your game as an admin, don't worry! You have not got uaservice7.exe on your computer - which is good! Proceed with the next step.
NOTE: You may have noticed that I opened a new window now - you don't have to do this, I did because for screenshots I prefer the relevant parts to be clearly visible.
One more step that requires use of the command prompt and we're done with that:
1. Type 'regsvr32 /u cmdlineext.dll'
2. 'enter'
You should now get a pop up message alerting you that you have been successful.
Close your windows command prompt and wave it good-bye: you won't need it anymore!
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If you've been able to follow so far: Well done! you've just completed the most difficult part of removing SecuROM. From this point on, everything else is a walk in the park! Go make yourself a cup of coffee, relax for a few minutes and pat yourself on the head!
Restart your computer now!
Our next task is to remove the SecuROM files from your computer.
For Vista users, look a bit further down.
1. Using the windows explorer, navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32
2. If you had the uaservice7 file before, look for it and delete it. If you did not have any (like me) skip this step.
3. Look for a file called CmdLineExt.dll and delete this too.
For Vista users:
Instead of the "cmdlineext.dll" file which is found in c:\windows\system32 it has now changed to "cmdlineext_x64.dll" and is now located in c:\windows\syswow64
The cmdlineext.dll no longer exists so just replace the removal of the dll file with the location and file name listed above.
Now we're almost done. The only task which is still left is to remove the SecuROM files in your 'Documents and Settings' folder. These are hidden files, so we will have to make them visible first of all:
In your Windows Explorer menu, click on 'tools' and open 'Folder Options'.
When your folder options box opens, click on the 'View' tab. Scroll down until you see something called 'hidden files and folders'.
This is normally set to 'do not show hidden files and folders'. Change this setting to 'Show hidden files and folders', click 'OK'
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Now open the folder C:\Documents and Settings\Aphrodita\Application Data\ (Vista users: open
C:\users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\). You will find a folder called 'SecuROM' in there.
I unfortunately forgot to make a screenshot of this, but now that your hidden folders have been made visible you should find it easily in the specified location. It will appear fainter than the folders that are supposed to be visible to you.
If you can, delete this folder. If you cannot, open it and delete everything that you can delete.
If you still have SecuROM files that cannot be deleted now, download DelinvFile from http://www.purgeie.com/delinv/dldelinv.htm and install it.
Open DelinvFile and navigate to your SecuROM folder. Delete everything in there that was previously undeletable. Now you should be able to delete the SecuROM folder the normal way.
Congratulations, you've just wiped SecuROM off the face of the earth. Well, off your computer, anyway.
As I wrote above, I went through this process AFTER uninstalling my game - it does work with your game still installed, though. After surviving this lengthy process, make sure that you never ever start your game from your SecuROM protected CD again or you will install everything all over again!
Add On:
We have found a new file called - CmdLineExt.dll - in the registry that belongs to SecuROM and is not included in the above Tutorial yet.
This search can be done after the completion of the removal process above!
To remove it, please follow the instructions below:
You will need to go into your registry -
start by going to "Run" type regedit to get in there.
Then once your in...go to the top - "edit" - "find". Type in CmdLineExt.dll
If anything comes up...just right-click it and go to delete...it should allow you to remove it.
Then just keep repeating the search until nothing shows up.
You can also do the same search process for the words - CmdLineExt and SecuROM
If you don't get any results from the search for the last 2, please don't panic...that just means you have been successful in removing SecuROM from your registry properly.
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