From: "Doug J Abbott" <nospam@lfs.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Invalid Registration - Gamespy 1.52
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:07:53 +0100
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If you are going to run any type of crack, at least backup the registry etc.
first....


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Doug J Abbott
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n00body wrote in message <6gqkri$kn@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>...
>    I installed Gamespy 1.52 a while ago. It worked fine until I decided I
>really needed the registered version. I got a registration crack program
for
>it and it said it would register Gamespy 1.52 for me. And right after I
>finished running that program, I decided to run Gamespy...bad move.
>    Gamespy said that there were remains of a 'previous copy of gamespy
>running in memory'. So I rebooted my computer and tried running Gamespy
>again...this time it said that it had detected an invalid registration, but
>the program still started. Each time after this, Gamespy ran very slowly
and
>very sluggishly. After running it a few times, Gamespy decided to quit
>working all together basically. Sometimes it would give me the error of the
>extra copy of gamespy being in memory, sometimes it would just give the
>invalid registration error....it was very inconsistent.
>    So I tried reinstalling Gamespy 1.52, but that solve anything....so I
>tried uninstalling it...again...it didn't sovle anything (of course I then
>reinstalled Gamespy, but it was still corrupt).
>    I think my problem lies in the Windows registry. The crack program that
>I had run said something about modifying the registry...and that's
precisely
>what it did. Uninstalling and reinstalling gamespy wouldn't affect what is
>in the registry, so my efforts were futile.
>    Can I load a copy of the registry that doesn't have the gamespy
>registration entires in it? I haven't really made any backups of the
>registry, but I hear there's another way...
>    Can anyone help me?
>
>