Quote - Go look at this thread: http://tinyurl.com/28ov49q

at the bottom of that page you will see someone did an install of carrara on an clean install of XP and recorded all the changes made to the registry might give you a clue on the cleanup.

A zip file is included which has text showing all the changes.

I tried something similar using one of my other machines, but the registry entries that showed up were not the ones.  I'll give it a look though, they might have used a better program for capturing the changes.

For one thing, I can not use the render nodes due to a serial conflict. The other issue, is that while an Educational version of the program normally has all the features or is missing very few, it is not liscensed for commercial usage - as I intend to use it - hence I purchased a liscense to the full commercial Carrara 7 Pro.

As I already said, Daz intentionally hid and encrypted the info in the registry, I had to practically drag that out of them. They wont say why they wont tell me how to reset it, they just wont. It really irritates me. The other issue with the refund is because I orriginally made the purchase in February, discovered the problem in April, and have been trying to get help waiting for replies in Daz forums and the bug tracker since - it is now may, well past 30 days, and Carrara 8 is out for the same price I paid for 7 - which is probably why they don't want to give a refund. I would rather have Carrara fully working than a refund, but they don't seem to want to help me fix the issue either.

As for C7 Express, C6, and Beta versions, they are all different versions, so the information does not conflict across the versions - but in the issue I am having it is C7 to C7.

Registry cleaners are useless, as I already said in my initial post I have already used them and because these keys are hidden and encrypted the registry cleaners are not finding them.

As I already said in several previous posts, it is not a rights issue, as there is ONLY and administrator account.

Quote - you need to figure out what you are looking for...sorry, can't help you there.

Yeah and this is the information I am asking for, and asked for in post one.  Without knowing what the hidden keys are or where to look, they are not removable. Stating that "if you use common sense" is a complete misdirection, as these are hidden keys.  For all I know the information may be broken across multiple hidden keys, depending on how they chose to do it.

What I was hoping for is someone TRULYknowlegable in Carrara and Windows Registry who may have encountered this information, or know about this who would share information. I even used security software to track changes made on a seperate machine in hopes of locating these keys, and tracking down each of those registry entries and deleting it STILL does not remove this - which means that when the registry keys are written the installer most likely hooks processes to hide from detection.

Quote - There is nothing in your registry that you can't find....if you look long enuff and hard enuff...and use common sense.

voice of experience

Incorrect. As I have already stated, after much discussion with Daz3D I was informed the information is intentionally encrypted and burried in the registry where "people are unlikely to find it". These were their words.  If you are implying you have knowledge to the contrary on where this is stored, then by all means please share it?

Quote - Its def. not the only one 8/10 programs do it..

You say on THIS machine.. if you have a other one install it on that one for time being...
This is just what you say .. it does come back and bite you ..

BC

Actually, over the years I have installed and removed hundreds of programs, on various computers, this is the first time where serial and owner information has been permanently embeded and hidden in my registry.  So 8/10 does not sound at all believable from my own practical experience with software installs and removals.  Usually, after uninstalling a program, cleaning up any temp files, directories, and ini files left by the program fixes any such problem.  In this case the keys are encrypted and hidden though, which is unusual.

As for the other machines, they are simply render nodes with small HDs.  They are not physically set up in a work friendly way.

The admin account is the only account on this PC. Generally I am the only one to use it.

The teacher was a private instructor I hired last summer, giving in-home instruction here (I was out of 3D for almost 10 years), and he hasn't been real forth coming now when I try to contact him. At the time it was installed, he told me it was an educational Version.  I already had Various other 3D apps of my own (Poser, Lightwave, etc...), so the only thing installed for the class was Carrara. He brought the software to install, but I installed it.  Had I known this issue would come back to haunt me, I definately would have taken precautions at that time (this is the first software I have run into that embeds registration data permanently, I'm sure it's not the only).

Reformatting and reinstalling windows is really not a viable option. I have too much installed on this machine, and reinstalling and setting it all up again would take days.

No, but it will not work since the information is embedded in the registry under the administrator account, any user profile created will use that name and serial. I need a way to reset this info under the primary administrator account.

Quote - "Sanity" is for V2/V3 :

Yes that could work - and with a few simple adjustments I can fit it to M3 as well. A little pricy for a legacy set, but I can't have everything.  Just don't see how I missed this when I did a page by page search through the V2/V3 sections of the marketplace.

Thanks for the heads up.

Quote - The only decent straitjacket currently available is Oskarsson's Straitjacket created for V4.  Link below:

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=63809&Start=31&vendor=15807

If you own Wardrobe Wizard, P8 or PoserPro 2010, you might be able to convert it. 

As I said, I need one for M3/V3, M2/V2, or Posette/Dork. I do not have a way to convert things backward from the M4/V4 line, and they are not resource friendly.