The Picture above is Half-Life2 a notoriously resource heavy game.

If you read my blog you will know I have a nice shiny new Dell XPS M1210

I wanted to test my new laptop and one of the best ways to stress a system out is to play 3d style games on it.

The good news the M1210 is a great little performer. I am very impressed at what you can get a Nvidia Gforce 7400 to do.

Anyway I grabbed a couple of the newest game demos, I got one specifically Crashday from Atari, you drive about and crash into things. (yes I am a grown up, honest)

The game was quite fun, I even added it to my wish list at Amazon.

I uninstalled the demo. But I found the games copy protection mechanism/DRM/Rootkit/Whatever you want to call it, stayed on my system and had to be manually removed.

It was a software process called ua7service.exe

This involved stopping the software service, then deleting the ua7service.exe at the command prompt.

I am not impressed and on principle wont be purchasing the game and double checking something as simple as a game demo wont be able to cripple my system.

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