Puzzle Pirates – Is your computer tainted?
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.
March 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
I have a max os x, how do I untaint my computer?
May 2nd, 2009 at 7:17 am
it doesn’t work. when i try to relog, the hash files comes back and it still tells me my computers tainted.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
I don’t know, I assume it would be similar to the way you do it in windows.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
It does work, I’ve done it on three different computers. You must be doing something wrong.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Didn’t work for me either. Every time I got rid of it another one popped back up in its place as soon as I tried to log in.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I don’t think I left anything out, I’ve done this one two of my Windows computers and they were both able to create accounts.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Yeah, didn’t work for me either…every time I delete hash.dat it pops back up when i try to make and account. I followed the steps too.
July 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
it wont let me delete the hash file
July 14th, 2009 at 1:46 am
It does work i’ve done it twice.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
I am trying on Windows Vista the hash has the Same Location as the XP.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:53 am
it so works ive done it 6 times i like getting banned XD
September 7th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Okey. Im gonna try that right now… For all of you that it didnt work did u maybe forget to unnistall it first, then delet the hash file, and then reinstall PP.
Hope this helps.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Nope it didnt work.. Im using a Vista. Does that have to do anything with it not working?? Thx. The hash file just keeps on coming back and back no matter what i do!!!
October 16th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
it worked the first time
then it didnt work after that it keept poping back