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post #1 of 24
8/26/08 at 2:32pm
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Hello guys. Today I will be showing you how to recover cd keys for installed games on your system. Have you installed a game, and then lost your cd key? This happened to me a few weeks ago with cod4, so i searched my registry and found my cd and wrote it down -_^. Here's how.

1. Press Windows Key+R to bring up "Run" and input : regedit



2.Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and expand it



3.Find Software and expand it



4.Locate the games maker, in this case Activision, and expand it, then find the game and expand it. You will see (x)key (x being whatever game key your looking for). In this case it is codkey. That is your cd key .



5. Enjoy!
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post #2 of 24
8/26/08 at 3:25pm
nice +rep
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8/26/08 at 3:29pm
This could be useful information, at some point. Hadn't thought of this but it makes sense now that you point it out. Thanks for the info.
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8/26/08 at 3:35pm
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Is there a way to edit them with this method?
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8/26/08 at 3:35pm
I don't see why not.
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8/26/08 at 3:43pm
is there a way to get my key from a disk i have ? but not installed
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post #7 of 24
8/26/08 at 3:46pm
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is there a way to get my key from a disk i have ? but not installed
No sir.
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8/26/08 at 3:52pm
Some games encrypt the CDKEY in the registry, I remember BF2 did.
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post #9 of 24
8/26/08 at 5:06pm
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Is there a way to edit them with this method?
Yep. For call of duty 4 you can edit it the registry, and to be 100 percent sure you go into Multiplayer options and verify the keycode. Then go and play a server for a few minutes so it "saves" the data and then your fine ^_^
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8/28/08 at 6:11pm
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No sir.
actually i've heard some people speaking of roomers of people that decompile the exe to find the cd. Sounds like bull to me but you never know
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