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JOSE
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 Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: Uh Oh, lost HL2 CD Key! Help! |
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I seem to have misplaced/eaten the paper CD cover that had my HL2 CDkey on it, the VU support website is of little to no help (their "contact" page helpfully links to the knowledge base) which in turn gives no help,
but helpfully they have provided a nice 1900 number for me to ring, my question is, if i ring this number at $2.48 a minute will they actually tell me what my CDkey was ( ive still got the receipt from my CDkey subscription).
UPDATE!!!
according to this page http://support2.vugames.com/vug/answer.aspx?ID=3561 the CDkey is recorded in my registry (this would be nice but ive reinstalled windows - my old install is still there on another disk BUT i cant boot it anymore - how do i locate it so i can open it to retrieve my CDkey
let me just take one moment to also state that i hate steam quite profusely, i dont like the idea of updating my games everytime i want to play them (thats if i ran steam while a net connection was present) and updating a game the first time i play it is also bad news (yes valve/VU, not all your customers are on broadband) |
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MRE-50L
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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ok put ya other hd as a slave ,
then go looking in the rego files for ya key
lol @ steam . ive been playin CS all weekend  |
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JOSE
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ok, found all my old registry files, but i cant seem to find the one that contains all the s**t in " HKEY_CURRENT_USER" (which is where the CDkey should be) ive found all the other registry keys, but cant find that one. |
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Happy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| HKCU is the current logged on user - if you are opening up a second registry you won't have one. Look through all the HK User keys.. should be in there! |
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JOSE
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Just found out that Steam doesnt keep all the CDkeys in the registry, so it looks like ill be contacting the tech support at steampowered.com (its seems that they should be able to tell me my cdkey) |
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smiley235
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| go to the library and use their phone. |
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fnp
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| Get one of an auction photo on ebay, that's what I've done in the past |
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Pulco
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:59 am Post subject: |
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u dont need ur steam cd key if ur using steam...all u have to do is log into ur account and it will work
i havent played cs or dod for months, then i installed the other day and jsut put my login details and im playin again! |
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the_scotsman
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| serials.ws |
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phongus
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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dun u need CD key to install?
| MRE-40L wrote: | ok put ya other hd as a slave ,
then go looking in the rego files for ya key
lol @ steam . ive been playin CS all weekend |
hahaha so have i was playing last nite and found out it was 4AM |
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JOSE
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| Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, managed to beat the stupid thing, turns out all i had to do was install steam then copy the entire steamapps folder from my old HDD and voila. only problems are:
1: while playing registry editing shenanigans ive managed to screw something up and my computer has been less than stable lately (yes even for windows)
2: i just discovered my HL2 disk has a huge scratch on the LABEL side, luckily i made a backup of it so ill just use that!
god damn i love computers! |
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TFI
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| Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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How many of you play CS and what are your names and which servers you play?
My name is PWNT. if any of you see me in the game. |
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