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Removing an old hack from Vbulletin Options

OK so after not getting any help I figured this out on My own:

For those of you with old hacks still lingering in your vbulletin options (they might even be blank spaces in the options but when you click on them you have things you can set, but none of it is labelled)- if you reinstalled but kept your database.

This is how you fix it. (I used PHPMyAdmin)

In your database there are 2 tables.. setting and settinggroup

Simply look though those tables and delete the rows that apply to the hack you removed.

In the settinggroup table there should not be a lot of entries you should be able to just browse through it and delete the rows no longer needed. (Pay attention to the product field).

In the setting table there will be more rows enterred. What I did was searched the product, and grouptitle fields for matches to the hacks I was trying to remove.

The main reason I posted this was to inform people of WHERE you have to go to remove these lingering options. I was told to look in xml files and to reinstall my board, but since I kept my database (duh) that didn't do me any good.

If you attempt this and mess up your database don't blame it on me, I'm no expert, I'm just trying to help out other people who have the same problem I had.










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