Half-life Cd Key

Burst · May 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">How to change the one my comp uses</div> When I first started playing Half-Life mods, I borrowed someone else's game and CD key. I liked it enough ( partly due to NS) that I bought my own copy (read: CD key). Now, however, I need to change my copy to use the CD key I bought, so that my friend and I can both play online at the same time. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

Burst

Angelus · May 2003

Only way i know of is to uninstall/reinstall the game, so it asks fer CD Key when ya run HL/CS/NS/whatever Mod again...

Marik_Steele · May 2003

Uninstall, reinstall. Backing up any configs and savegames beforehand is fairly straightforward, and it's a lot cleaner / less risky than editing anything like the registry for it.

MedHead · May 2003

It's in the registry.

You can use this program:

<a href='http://www.majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=650' target='_blank'>http://www.majorgeeks.com/article.php?sid=650</a>

Red_Wizard · May 2003

There are programs one can download to change the CD key without uninstalling.

Dread · May 2003

I think it could be done by using regedit. Just "run" regedit and find Half-Life and its key there.

Edit: Ok, I tried it and it should go like this...

HKEY_CURREN_USER --> SOFTWARE --> VALVE --> HALF-LIFE --> SETTINGS --> KEY and put your new key there. I don't know if it really works but it's worth a try <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Edit2: Hah, I beat Firestorm to it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

CoolCookieCooks · May 2003

yea i got a program off kazaa(dodgy) and it worked coz i used my bros cd key coz we always had lannies every day but not we got broadband so i used a program and changed it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

FireStorm · May 2003

Start, run, type "regedit" then click OK.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware\Valve\Half-Life\Settings and change the "Key" value

Zel · May 2003

yep. the registry is the way to go.

but be careful not to change ANYTHING else in there or you WILL break windows.

Bogglesteinsky · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ May 29 2003, 12:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> but be careful not to change ANYTHING else in there or you WILL break windows.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
and it wasn't broken already??

registry editor is for teh windowz h4x0r

Bogglesteinsky · May 2003

didnt you read his post?

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>When I first started playing Half-Life mods, I borrowed someone else's game and CD key. I liked it enough ( partly due to NS) that I bought my own copy (read: CD key). Now, however, I need to change my copy to use the CD key I bought, so that my friend and I can both play online at the same time. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

i have no reason to belive he is not telling the truth, why do you doubt?

MedHead · May 2003

Cuz he's Jobabob.

SYPHER1 · May 2003

regedit is the way to go here is a more detailed tutorial on how to do it.<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

<a href='http://hl.helpandsupport.net/?aid=54' target='_blank'>HL help and support cd-key</a>

MonsieurEvil · May 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>i have no reason to belive he is not telling the truth, why do you doubt? </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Cuz he's Jobabob. </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>

Oh snap! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Pretty much all the answers here are right. Uninstalling or direcly editing the CD key will work fine. If you're unsure of how to do the regedit route , I'd really recommend going with the uninstall and reinstall though. Safer, but more boring to wait...

Half-life Cd Key

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