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   kool8000
   Member

   first off iam real happy with your website i have just a few questions first we all know sooner or later your going to have a harddrive failer or system crash. vista upgrade to name a few which will call for a fresh install of the os.iam just wanting to know if i backup the programs i have all ready down loaded and activated will i beable to reinstall them and activate them again once i have upgraded or not.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   BillW50
   Member

   NO! But you can backup your system and that will work. You are supposed to do this anyway. It is part of preventive maintenance. :)

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   kool8000
   Member

   thanks billw50 thats what i was afaid of. with microsofts new operating system vista most of the time they recomend a fresh install which includes harddrive reformating and then installing the new operating system. the computer i have now i just bought and it has windows xp on it and i will be upgradeing to vista within the next few months which means now i will lose all of my downloads from give away of the day i will try and just do a upgrade over windows xp but most of the time that cause troble. thanks for your reply

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Jan52
   Member

   I was trying to find help on this topic and came across this. I had to have my computer reformatted right before New Years and I did exactly as it said; I backed up all the things I wanted to keep onto an external hard drive. I've just now gone into it to check on the programs and games that I got from here and EVERY one of them says I have an unregistered version. Any ideas? Thanks.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Just copy the registry key that registers the software and after a format double click the .reg key after reinstalling the software, or do it before.

   I do backup my system using NG 10.

   However I do a full back up then increments.

   So if I installed it today, then tomorrow found serious errors and had to restore an image back before installing the free software it would not activate via net again as 24 hours is up.

   So I back up all keys which I had created to activate the software.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   tjchan
   Member

   NG 10 = Norton Ghost?

   That's nice to have incremental backups. I use Acronis (though I haven't used it to full extent yet - only created a system restore image).

   As the GAotD team has remained silent about this issue, and I being an advocate of safe computing, here's a little tutorial on registry backups...I'll try and expound more on it later (should it be neccessary):

   For those who do not understand registry backups is a good starter:
   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756

   The important branches that you need are:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
   HKEY_CURRENT_USERS

   Everything else (on the most part) is not needed as keys are created in either of those 2 branches (if they go by industry standard) as:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE (EX. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\eBook Maestro In this case, export this entire branch)
   HEKY_CURRENT_USERS\SOFTWARE

   If they are doing it via non standard means, then the key can be ANYWHERE (pretty much and you'll have to search for it [CTRL+F (find), F3 (find next])!

   Just a note: DO NOT just take the entire \SOFTWARE section - these also contain Windows registry settings - if you reinstalled Windows you DO NOT want to overwrite those new settings with the old settings. Too many settings (I cannot remember but some may be activation specific for Windows). So all in all, just export the branch you need. Else, you'll end up with a monster file which you'll need to pick at later.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Jan52
   Member

   Lee, all the programs and games I've gotten on this site don't show a reg. key. They only give an activation for it and when you try and activate it after the 24 hours are up it won't let you. If you know how to get the key, that would surely be helpful. Thanks.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Jan52
   Member

   Lee, all the programs and games I've gotten on this site don't show a reg. key. They only give an activation for it and when you try and activate it after the 24 hours are up it won't let you. If you know how to get the key, that would surely be helpful. Thanks.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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   Jan52
   Member

   Lee, all the programs and games I've gotten on this site don't show a reg. key. They only give an activation for it and when you try and activate it after the 24 hours are up it won't let you. I do realize the key is part of the activation but it doesn't show it when you click Activate. If you know how to get the key, that would surely be helpful. Thanks.

   Posted 17 years ago #
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    Jan52
    Member

    Lee, all the programs and games I've gotten on this site don't show a reg. key. They only give an activation for it and when you try and activate it after the 24 hours are up it won't let you. If you know how to get the key, that would surely be helpful. Thanks.

    Posted 17 years ago #
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    Anonymous
    Unregistered

    Jan52 it's by looking in regedit.

    I do know how but that would defeat the point and would cause problems for this site.

    I like this site and would not shit on my own doorstep.

    I mentioned what I mentioned before as I am not the only one that knows this.

    Posted 17 years ago #
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    Jan52
    Member

    Sorry about the same post several times but my computer didn't show that I had posted ANY of them and I have been having trouble getting into the forums. Thanks for trying to help. I am no good with the above and I definitely don't want any problems. I do appreciate your help. Thanks.

    Posted 17 years ago #

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