How to get around securom 7?

[RincewindTheWiz]

Go to Device Manager and disable any ide channel (primary/secondary) that has an optical drive on it (dvdrom/cdrom/writer). Ofcourse if you also have your main hard drive on the same channel as an optical drive (for example hard disk is Master and writer is Slave on Primary) then you have to move the optical drive. By disabling the ide channel, Securom won't find the drive. If Securom finds any ide optical drive, it will insist that you use that one instead of any virtual (scsi) cd drive. You could also try disabling the optical drive itself in the device manager, I haven't tried that.

This "trick" once used to work for Starforce too, but they quickly closed that loophole. I couldn't get Stronghold 2 1.3.1 to work with any version of Securom Loader, AntiBlaxx or CureROM. I was a bit surprised that disabling the IDE channel did work. It may or may not work for your game, just try it out.