How to get rid of the SafeNet "Sentinel HASP license managerservice" hasplms.exe

On Sun, 8 May 2016 18:36:54 +0000 (UTC), Chris Rangoon
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

I can tell that person that all you have to do is plug in what looks
exactly like a flash thumb drive and you'll end up with hasplms.exe!

It's not present on any thumb drive that I've come across, but that
could be because I have autorun turned off?

Upon initial inspection, it looks exactly like any other thumb drive:
http://www.software-key.org/haspsbs.html

I can't be sure, but it seems to have its logo printed right on the device
itself. Did you buy it, thinking it was a common thumb drive? Also, do you
have autorun enabled for removable drives? That can be dangerous, as you've
found.

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Char Jackson

Chris Rangoon wrote:
"dadiOH" wrote:

Restarting from "hibernate" is not the same as rebooting. When
hibernating,
the current state is saved - all open apps, anything running- and
those are reinstated when hibernation ends. When rebooting, nothing
is saves, all is fresh. Try rebooting. Or a cold start (shut down,
turn on).

I wish it were that simple.

I have never once restarted out of the state that the laptop goes into
and gotten a Windows prompt.

Which Windows prompt?

I always have to hold down the power button for a few seconds until
the laptop actually boots.

So, whatever the state the laptop is in when it's in the power-down
mode, there is no known way to get it out of that state.

Pushing the "ON" button does it.

Char Jackson wrote:

Upon initial inspection, it looks exactly like any other thumb drive:
http://www.software-key.org/haspsbs.html

I can't be sure, but it seems to have its logo printed right on the
device itself. Did you buy it, thinking it was a common thumb drive?
Also, do you have autorun enabled for removable drives? That can be
dangerous, as you've found.

This is a good question, and to answer it directly, I have a shoe box
filled with discarded thumb drives. Where these thumb drives came from
is anyone's guess, given that I bought many, received many in computer
conferences (especially in the early days of thumb drives where 2GB
was a big deal, and some of them are 32MB thumb drives!). I picked
them up at yard sales, sometimes on the street, etc.

Having said that, one of them was the HASP drive, and yes, to answer
your question, it SAYS it's a hasp drive. It's small print. It's tiny
print. But it's there.

So, had I _looked_ at each drive before putting them into the USB
slot, I would have noticed that the tiny print (barely visible to
my old tired eyes) didn't say anything about megabytes or gigabytes.

Alas, it was something I missed once, but I won't miss twice!
Thanks for teaching me the right way to go next time!

I have since thrown out that HASP drive, but, like all good garage
sale aficionados, I actually donated it to the library who has
a bucket for this type of stuff so that someone who really wants
and needs it can use it in the future.

Char Jackson wrote:

It should be clear to you that your laptop is not working correctly with
regards to Hibernate. The feature works very well for me on multiple
laptops. I use it frequently and would not want to be without it. That's
why I say it's probably worth your time to fix it, even though it's not
your current focus.

Yeah. Something is wrong I agree. It ok though. I just reboot every
morning as a result. Sometimes I just get into old habits, for example,
I'm still on Windows XP because there's nothing in the new stuff that
I want.

I just want the start menu (which I have customized perfectly for me and
which is outside the original start menu which is too hard to manage).

And after the start menu, I have all my freeware that has worked for
me for a decade or more just fine.

I'm old school.
I only go to a new school when there is something significant in the
new school that is worth the effort of swimming across the ocean to
get to.

So, for me, it's Windows XP for the conceivable future, even though I
have to reboot it every morning.

Char Jackson wrote:

For me, (I like to keep things simple rather than going into the various
sleep states), Sleep and Standby are the same. They're a low power
state, but the laptop is essentially still running. Thus, waking up from
Sleep/Standby is very fast, but on the downside, Sleep/Standby still
requires some power, so it's not suitable for longer periods of
downtime.

Hibernate doesn't seem to require any power at all. Just a few days ago
I woke up a laptop that had been hibernated nearly a year ago and
everything came up, just as it was when I last shut it down. No battery
would have lasted that long.

That's interesting that sleep and standby are the same state.
Anyway, I think the original problem is solved, which is that HASP
is gone!

Thanks for all the help and advice.
I'm old school, so, if it ain't broke, I don't fix it and if it ain't
broke too badly I don't fix it either!

That's why I'm still on Windows XP.

"dadiOH" wrote:

So, whatever the state the laptop is in when it's in the power-down
mode, there is no known way to get it out of that state.

Pushing the "ON" button does it.

Pushing the "ON' button momentarily causes all sorts of pretty blue lights
to flash on the laptop, but that's it. The hard drive yellow light goes on
and does something, but the screen remains black.

Holding the on button for a few seconds causes a sigh of relief from the
laptop as all blue and orange lights flash once and then go dead.

Then lifting up momentarily on the ON button starts the laptop from
the beginning.

It's a ritual I go through every morning as I make my coffee.