If your computer claims to be tainted by Three Rings‘ game Puzzle Pirates then you can’t create a new account. There is an easy way to fix this.
- Uninstall Puzzle Pirates.
- Remove hash.dat.
- Install Puzzle Pirates.
- Create account.
I’m not sure where the file lives in Vista but in XP hash.dat is located in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
I’ll post later why I needed to figure this out.