How to Disable Captcha ReCaptcha

Question

Captcha ReCaptcha is not working well for me. I am using an Artisteer Template with Joomla 2.5 and for some reason it only allows new account creators to use all caps and then their account ends up with all lower case letters.

I want to try ECC+ and it appears but when I disable Captcha ReCaptcha in the admin area, I still get the message

Captcha plugin not set or not found. Please contact a site administrator

when I click on the create account link.

I tried renaming captcha.ini but that only produced other errors.

how do you totally disable this thing? I've looked everywhere for settings in the admin panel and can't find anything to reset other than just disabling it.

I've installed ECC+ but it is not a choice in global settings where you choose the default captcha method

Answer 1

In the Plugin Manager, have you disabled the plugin "Captcha - ReCaptcha"?
In the Global Configuration, for the option Default Captcha, have you selected the option "- None Selected -"?
In different managers, if you have chosen the "Captha - ReCaptcha" explicitly for the option Captcha in the options of the managers (e.g., User Manager -> Options) you have to choose the value "- None Selected -".

Comments

Im having the same problem with the error message:
Captcha plugin not set or not found. Please contact a site administrator

Yet, I have un-installed the plug in entirely... under global config it is set to "None Selected" and in the User-Options it is set to "None Selected". Can anyone advise what I need to do? I have posted to other forums and no one seems to know... any help is appreciated!
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