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    Posted: 30 November 2008 at 5:09pm
Hi Iain,

SecuROM does not seem to like it when specific drivers are resident.  Rebooting will unload the drivers.  So, you may need to note what you run before launching Football Manager, to attempt to determine which program SecuROM / Football Manager does not like, if  it does not tell you outright.  Or, you could consider contacting the developer of Football Manager - they may be able to tell you, or tell you how to find out.
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net helpmsg 4006
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I've had a similar problem when trying to run Football Manager 2008 but I don't know enough about computers to get the thing to run, can anyone suggest how I can fix this SecuROM problem? I have no idea which process it might be that is stopping it working
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Filemon and Regmon, each use their kernel mode driver at runtime.
They load it and use it.
But Mark thinks it is unsafe to unload those drivers while Windows is running. (He wrote them, he should be able to judge. ) They will stay in memory till next reboot.
They will not be reloaded unless you launch Filemon / Regmon again.

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Originally posted by MP_ART

Filemon and Regmod driver stay in memory after closing main application. SecuRom just detect it.


Anyway to terminate that "driver that stays in memory?"

Why would Filemon/Regmon do that anyway? SOP?
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For preventing FileMon/RegMon from shutdown read this thread

http://www.sysinternals.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4515&P N=1
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Filemon and Regmod driver stay in memory after closing main application. SecuRom just detect it.
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I was doing some messing about with my PC last night, and had various Sysinternals goodies running, including Filemon.

After I'd finished messing, I decided to have a quick blast at Tomb Raider: Legend (reasonably good fun, disappointingly lacking the massively sprawling vaguely non-linear levels of the original). Except, when I went to run it, I got a not-terribly attractive message box telling me "A required security module cannot be activated. This program cannot be executed (5001).", with a link to here, which tells me "SecuROM™ has determined that some File Monitor or Registry Monitor program is running in the background. Please close this program before you start the application."

Hrm. After a check with Proces Explorer to see there was anything obvious still floating around, I started Filemon back up, just to see what kind of skullduggery was going on with this SecuROM software. Magically, Tomb Raider loaded!

So yeah - if you run filemon on your system, then quit it, Tomb Raider: Legend won't run unless you either reboot or restart filemon. Really fills me with confidence that it's doing its job.

I was tempted to send off a sarcastic email to them, but it'd only encourage them.
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