Though I'm not a fan of Starforce I have been living with it on my PC due my desire to race cars around the weird and wacky courses of (the free) Trackmania. When I heard that there was a new free version of this game without Starforce I rushed to install it, and finding it to my liking, removed all traces of Starforce from my machine (uninstalling the old Trackmania does not remove Starforce, you need to run the linked driver-removal software too). To my delight, the removal of Starforce also cured a seemingly unrelated fault. Whenever I started any program my whole computer would hang for a few seconds - even the mouse cursor would seize up. Now that no longer happens.
Goodbye Starforce, you won't be missed,