How to get napster working after getting banned?

Lawrence

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Jun 18, 2000
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I got booted off napster. How can i get back on? Yeah..I was bad...but so is just about every other napster user...I just got caught.
I've reinstalled napster multiple times and registered under multiple identities, yet napster is able to identify me. So what I figured is that it's not my account that's been banned nessesarily but my computer that has. Which means that there is something that is being left on my computer (no matter how many times I reinstall/uninstall napster) that allows napster to remember me. Is this true? Or am I just totally wrong? If I'm right, how can I fix this? What can I delete or alter? Is it within the system registry or in some kind of configuration file?
Help!! I haven't used napster for about 5 or 6 months!!
Thank You.
 

Imported

Lifer
Sep 2, 2000
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Not sure, but I think Napster saves something to your registry so you won't be able to get back on. I'd try using a registry cleaner and finding the Napster stuff and deleting that first.
 

joemama

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Oct 16, 1999
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There may be a hidden file on your HD that was not deleted during the uninstall. If the registry cleaner doesn't work you may need to reformat your HD. Also a few months ago I remember seeing some software that will take care of what Napster left behind. Not sure where it was though. Someone else on this board may be able to help you with that.
 

Jugernot

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Oct 12, 1999
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Just make a small partition on your drive and install a compact copy (to save space) of Win98 or something on it. Anytime you want to use Napster, just reboot and login to the compact version of win98.
 

erikistired

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Sep 27, 2000
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do a search on hotbot or yahoo for banned from napster. you should find a half dozen links on how to unban yourself. you'll have to look tho, because there's a bunch of junk about schools and whatnot being banned as a whole. it's a little util that fixes it for you (if i remember right napster adds a registry key to identify your computer). a buddy got banned a few months ago for dl'ing metallica and he's back on now, after doing ~the fix~.

~erik