On 4/28/2012 9:45, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/28/2012 4:05, Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Got a fair number of games that flat won't run without those keys, and not
>> all of them are recoverable from the sites they originally got registered
>> to. All of which makes things a massive pain in the ass.
>
> Fair enough. I'd count that as installation materials, which you'd need to
> have to reinstall. Of course, the worst are when you get such a key, and it
> dials out to their server to verify it, and their server is toast after a
> few years. I've had a couple like that.

Or, incidentally, if you get one of those, dump the entire registry as a 
text file and back *that* up. At least then in the event of disaster you can 
find what you're looking for. (In regedit, save it as an NT4 registry, and 
it'll be readable text, IIRC.)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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