Re: Starforce Copy Protection

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Hi Guesty4,

I'm reposting some of Paul's advice you may have missed:

||| Apparently, so I'm told; there are keys that disabled the StarForce
||| protection - I seem to remember people having problems with it on the game
||| Silent Hunter 3; they contacted Star Force themselves who would send this
||| new key which eithered worked or disable StarForce.
|||
||| http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=71 You could try asking them.

Otherwise, if you just want to uninstall the game as you mentioned before then...

Here's how to uninstall a game when using Add-Remove programs fails:

Step A: Start your computer in Safe Mode by holding down the F8 key.

Step B: Reinstall the game to the same folder it was installed to originally,
and then try to uninstall it again using Add-Remove programs. If
that fails, delete it's folder and any save games in My Documents.

Step C: Install and Run Regcleaner and if it finds any stray registry keys for the
game, delete them: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download460.html


Cheers,
Jimmy S.

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Guesty4 Wrote:
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| "Thomas Kuck" wrote:
|
|| If you have used a utility like CCleaner you might have removed the log
|| file. Install the game again and uninstall it the way Paul suggested.
||
|| Guesty4 wrote:
||| "Paul Smith" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| "Guesty4" <Guesty4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|||| news:7CF9AB3F-467E-4002-B463-1CACC1016B5E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
||||
||||| I've just installed the Ubisoft Pippa Funnell 2 game and it has Starforce
||||| Copy Protection this is the first time i've ever heard of Starforce and
||||| its
||||| causing me real problems. I've had various error messages even though the
||||| key code i'm entering is correct, i've tried updating the Starforce
||||| protection, disabled the background software and nothing is making any
||||| difference....the game still wont start, when I click on start on the
||||| games
||||| menu Loading PIPPAF-1 comes up for about a minute then disappears and
||||| nothing
||||| happens, if I try and start it again I get the error message - UNHANDLED
||||| EXECPTION IN THE STARFORCE COPY PROTECTION HOST APPLICATION.
||||| This is now driving me nuts and all I want to do is return the game, i've
||||| uninstalled the Starforce Protection but it wont let me uninstall the
||||| game, I
||||| get the message - Could not open INSTALL.LOG File, this is now totally
||||| beyond
||||| my PC knowledge and if anyone could give me any help on either getting the
||||| game to play or uninstalling I would be totally grateful. Many thanks.
|||||
|||| I'd reinstall the game - which should reinstall StarForce and update the
|||| registry (obviously a poorly written an uninstaller!), then if you wish to
|||| remove try removing the game, then StarForce (assuming the game doesn't
|||| uninstall it automatically).
||||
|||| Apparently, so I'm told; there are keys that disabled the StarForce
|||| protection - I seem to remember people having problems with it on the game
|||| Silent Hunter 3; they contacted Star Force themselves who would send this
|||| new key which eithered worked or disable StarForce.
||||
|||| http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=71 You could try asking them.
||||
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|||| Paul Smith,
|||| Yeovil, UK.
|||| Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
|||| http://www.windowsresource.net/
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|||| I've removed Starforce using the Starforce removal software, but cant uninstall the game, every time I try I get the error
|||| message - Could Not Open INSTALL.LOG so I cant even take everything off and try again. Do you have any idea how I get round
|||| the uninstalling problem I have. I have emailed Starforce support twice over the last few days and as yet still havnt
|||| received a reply. Many thanks
||||
||||
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|| The game is still installed so I cant reinstall it, I cant uninstall it, thats my problem. I've uninstalled and reinstalled
|| Starforce and i've updated it, but not the game. How do I know if i've removed the log file. Sorry guys but i'm going to need
|| a lot of help here.


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