I installed a game, which uses the StarForce protection under Windows 7 (64-bit).
After game installation, StarForce displayed a message, asking for a reboot. Since the reboot, Windows 7 doesn't start properly. It shows a text mode dialog (Recovery or Start Windows normally). Selecting any option leads to graphic mode rescue dialog (that with many different options). Sadly, I have to system images.
Is there a way to recover Windows 7 by deleting some files?
(By using GParted or something...)
After game installation, StarForce displayed a message, asking for a reboot. Since the reboot, Windows 7 doesn't start properly. It shows a text mode dialog (Recovery or Start Windows normally). Selecting any option leads to graphic mode rescue dialog (that with many different options). Sadly, I have to system images.
Gypsy Spellweaver2 Answers
From StarForce – the ultimate evil :
No big deal, boot up in safe mode and delete the problematic drivers, right? No such luck, StarForce had even managed to install these broken drivers in safe mode.
Next stop, the Vista installation disk, which has a repair feature. The repair went as expected, showed success, but when I tried to reboot, the problem was still there.
Luckily I had a Knoppix Live-CD lying around from some old experiments, and this was able to boot the machine into linux. A couple of driver downloads later I was able to access the files on the main hard drive, and delete the offending StarForce drivers by hand, which fixed the problem.
List of drivers from How can I get rid of Starforce? :
Unofficial way to remove Starforce
Remove these files:
%SystemRoot%system32driverssfsync03.sys
%SystemRoot%system32driverssfhlp02.sys
%SystemRoot%system32driverssfdrv01.sysRemove these registry keys:
HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicessfsync03
HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicessfhlp02
HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicessfdrv01
God bless Star-Force - punishing people who buy games whilst pirates who download the game apply a patch and never even know that Star-Force is the DRM.
At the start of your system, even before the screen comes up that asks to go in to recovery, try pressing F8 and choose Safe Mode
. Once in, follow the guide from Star-Force's website and you can try an update, but if it still fails to start, do a full removal uninstall of the game and driver.
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Starforce | |
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Interior panel from Avengers Vol. 1, #346 (April 1992). Art by Steven Epting and Tom Palmer. Letters by Bill Oakley. | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Avengers #346 (April 1992) |
Created by | Bob Harras |
In-story information | |
Type of organization | Team |
Agent(s) | Captain Atlas Doctor Minerva Ronan the Accuser Supremor Ultimus Korath the Pursuer Shatterax Deathbird |
The Starforce are a fictional supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Its original appearance was in the comic Avengers #346 released in 1992, as part of the 'Operation: Galactic Storm' storyline.
The team are a Kree team of super-powered individuals brought together by the Supreme Intelligence.
The Starforce team appears in the 2019 film Captain Marvel.
Publication history[edit]
The team debuted during the storyline Operation Galactic Storm and played a major role in the Kree-based part of the story. Following the outcome of that story, now under the control of the Shi'ar, they confronted Quasar, Her and Makkari who had travelled to the Kree homeworld to see if they can help survivors.[1]
The team reappeared in other Marvel space stories, including Silver Surfer: Breakout, Blackwulf[2] and during Annihilation they are exiled as traitors.[3]
Members[edit]
The initial team was:
After her capture, the Shi'ar noblewoman Deathbird joined them and then led the team following the destruction of the Kree when she was placed in charge of the former Kree empire.
In other media[edit]
The Starforce appears in the 2019 film Captain Marvel. Vers, Korath, Minn-Erva, Att-Lass, and Bron-Char make up the team and are led by Yon-Rogg.[4][5] The group is first seen going to the planet Torfa to rescue a Kree scout named Soh-Larr. This leads to a Skrull ambush led by Talos which results in Vers getting captured. When Vers escapes to Earth and makes contact with Yon-Rogg, Starforce heads to Earth. Following a parley with Talos and the discovery of the Skrull refugees that Mar-Vell hid, Starforce arrives and takes the Skrulls, Nick Fury, Maria Rambeau, and Goose prisoner, while Vers, in her regained identity of Carol Danvers, is placed in a transmission with the Supreme Intelligence. After breaking free and overheating the implant that limited her abilities, Carol Danvers fights Starforce and the Kree soldiers with them to rescue Nick Fury, Maria Rambeau, and the Skrulls which results in most of the antagonizing Kree either being killed or incapacitated.
Notes[edit]
- ^Quasar #35
- ^Blackwulf #7–8 (December 1994 – January 1995)
- ^Annihilation: Ronan #1
- ^Coggan, Devan (September 5, 2018). 'Brie Larson takes flight as Captain Marvel on this week's EW cover'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
- ^Coggan, Devan (September 5, 2018). 'See 10 exclusive images from Captain Marvel'. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
References[edit]
- Starforce at the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe
- Starforce at the Comic Book DB
External links[edit]
- Starforce at the Marvel Universe
- Starforce at the Marvel Database Project
- Starforce at Comic Vine