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[jejeje]

I'm trying to install Alcohol 52% Free but am having trouble installing SPTD after upgrading from Win Vista Home 64 bit to Win 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit. I had used a trial version of alcohol on Win Vista and uninstalled about a year ago.

After reading the FAQ I noted that I should have removed SPTD using the stand alone installer before upgrading to Win 7 so I proceded try and repair it as instructed in the SPTD Forum by manually removing almost all folders, files and registry keys related Alcohol and SPTD. The SPTD Version I had remaining in my system was 1.62.0.0

The only registry keys and sub keys I couldn't change permissions / remove were:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD

I have an HP Laptop so I disabled ProtectSmart, Uninstall ESET Smart Security and run the SPTD stand alone installer as administrator.

After Reboot The installer doesn't detect any SPTD Version installed however a restore point is created, SPTD 1.78.0.0 is installed on the drivers folder, and have the following new SPTD related registry entries:


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\eventlog\System\sptd]
"EventMessageFile"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,\
5c,00,49,00,6f,00,4c,00,6f,00,67,00,4d,00,73,00,67,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,00,00
"TypesSupported"=dword:00000007

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\sptd]
"ImagePath"="\\SystemRoot\\System32\\Drivers\\sptd.sys"
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Group"="Boot Bus Extender"
"Tag"=dword:00000003
"Set"=dword:080838c2
"Start"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\sptd\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_SPTD\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001
"INITSTARTFAILED"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\eventlog\System\sptd]
"EventMessageFile"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,\
5c,00,49,00,6f,00,4c,00,6f,00,67,00,4d,00,73,00,67,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,00,00
"TypesSupported"=dword:00000007

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\sptd]
"ImagePath"="\\SystemRoot\\System32\\Drivers\\sptd.sys"
"Type"=dword:00000001
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"Group"="Boot Bus Extender"
"Tag"=dword:00000003
"Set"=dword:080838c2
"Start"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\System\sptd]
"EventMessageFile"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,\
5c,00,49,00,6f,00,4c,00,6f,00,67,00,4d,00,73,00,67,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,00,00
"TypesSupported"=dword:00000007

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\sptd\Enum]
"0"="Root\\LEGACY_SPTD\\0000"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001
"INITSTARTFAILED"=dword:00000001

Along with the Following LEGACY_SPTD keys that couldn't be removed before installing

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD\0000]
"Capabilities"=dword:00000000
"Class"="LegacyDriver"
"ClassGUID"="{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1}"
"ConfigFlags"=dword:00000000
"DeviceDesc"="sptd"
"Legacy"=dword:00000001
"Service"="sptd"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD\0000\Control]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD\0000]
"Capabilities"=dword:00000000
"Class"="LegacyDriver"
"ClassGUID"="{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1}"
"ConfigFlags"=dword:00000000
"DeviceDesc"="sptd"
"Legacy"=dword:00000001
"Service"="sptd"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD\0000\Control]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD\0000]
"Capabilities"=dword:00000000
"Class"="LegacyDriver"
"ClassGUID"="{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1}"
"ConfigFlags"=dword:00000000
"DeviceDesc"="sptd"
"Legacy"=dword:00000001
"Service"="sptd"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD\0000\Control]

Any ideas on how to solve this? Are there any other registry keys that should be removed?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Charalambos]

The only registry keys and sub keys I couldn't change permissions / remove were:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD

If you have an administrator account you must be able to do this (at least in my Windows XP I can).

After Reboot The installer doesn't detect any SPTD Version installed however a restore point is created, SPTD 1.78.0.0 is installed on the drivers folder, and have the following new SPTD related registry entries:

You mean the SPTD installer or the Alcohol one? What is the exact error message that you get?

[jejeje]

The only registry keys and sub keys I couldn't change permissions / remove were:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_SPTD

If you have an administrator account you must be able to do this (at least in my Windows XP I can).

I've tried everything on Win 7 to do this with my admin account both in normal boot as well as in safe mode with no luck. If you have any suggestions on how you do it I'd appreciate it.

After Reboot The installer doesn't detect any SPTD Version installed however a restore point is created, SPTD 1.78.0.0 is installed on the drivers folder, and have the following new SPTD related registry entries:

You mean the SPTD installer or the Alcohol one? What is the exact error message that you get?

I mean the SPTD installer. It asks to reboot again and again just like the Alcohol installer and have the following error in my log

Log Name: System
Source: sptd
Date: 22/03/2011 6:43:51 PM
Event ID: 4
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: NOTEBOOK
Description:
Driver detected an internal error in its data structures for .

Binary data:


In Words

0000: 00000000 00000001 00000000 C0040004
0008: 000000B8 00000000 00000000 00000000
0010: 00000000 00000000


In Bytes

0000: 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ........
0008: 00 00 00 00 04 00 04 C0 .......À
0010: B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ¸.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

I also posted this thread at the DuplexSecure forum trying to make a two prong approach on solving the issue.

Kind Regards

[Charalambos]

Do you have any HP printer or other software installed in your system? Another user reports that there is an incombatibility between SPTD and 3D Driveguard (ACPI\HPQ0004)HP driver. Please check if you have this driver installed.