{"id":155,"date":"2006-06-03T01:21:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T05:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=155"},"modified":"2022-04-10T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T14:40:55","slug":"burn-in-hell-macrovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/06\/03\/burn-in-hell-macrovision\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn in hell Macrovision!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/CPU.gif\" style=\"float:left;margin:5px;\"\/>About a week ago, I had some trouble downloading some pics off my old digital camera.  As I was in a rush at the time, I just hooked it up to my wife&#8217;s computer and downloaded them there.  The problem caught my eye again the other day when I tried to hook up my new camera and it didn&#8217;t work either.  (nor did my iPod or any of my flash drives.)  That day I spent several hours searching the net and trying everything I could do, but gave up in the end.  Tonight I went back at it with absolute determination.  It&#8217;s now 1:00 a.m. and with the help of a <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware\/browse_thread\/thread\/d80bc554d9df03e5\/b9cb4703a60187f9?lnk=st&amp;q=usb+%2B+flash+%2B+no+drive+letter&amp;rnum=8&amp;hl=en#b9cb4703a60187f9\">usenet post<\/a> I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\">Google Groups<\/a> I got it taken care of.  Turns out, some DRM drivers from Macrovision were the culprit.  The solution is simple, look in c:\\windows\\system32\\drivers and delete the sptd.sys, sptdxxxx.sys and secdrv.sys files.  You&#8217;ll also want to search and destroy anything with sptd or secdrv in the registry.  (Ok, so that&#8217;s not so simple.)  Since I didn&#8217;t specifically install any Macrovision software, I have a feeling this was bundled with something else I installed.  More on this later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I had some trouble downloading some pics off my old digital camera. As I was in a rush at the time, I just hooked it up to my wife&#8217;s computer and downloaded them there. The problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/06\/03\/burn-in-hell-macrovision\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}