Lost your BF2142 or BF2 CD Key? How to get it back
Published at September 15, 2007 in Solutions. 6 Comments
Ok, so when I first started playing Battlefield 2142, everything went fine, and the game seemed to run perfectly. Then, one day, I opened it up, and the game froze when loading maps (at 60-70%). How annoying… Anyway, I googled around and found that I wasn’t the only one that had this problem, and lots of people couldn’t fix there computer even with all the “fixes” posted on forums. So, I decided to just quickly reinstall it. Uninstall went fine, but when it came back up for the reinstall, a message popped up on my screen, “Please Enter CD-KEY, found on the box/booklet”. At first I thought this wouldn’t be a problem, the box was just about 2 feet away from me in my view. I picked it up to fin that it wasn’t written on the box. “Huh, must be on the booklet inside”, I thought. I opened that box to find that it wasn’t there! WTF! OMFG! Xfire-ing my friends about me revelation only resulted in several “ownt, ownt, ownt-s”. I looked around and couldn’t find the booklet. Google then told me that the CD key is also stored in the registry, but that was only with the game installed 
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But then, I came across a brilliant idea! System Restore! I restored my computer to just before I uninstalled the game and found that while this did not restore the game so that you could play it, it did restore all the registry files that you had! YAY!
So, now I’ll show you how to do this. First, go to START>Run, and then type in msconfig, the System Configuration Utility should pop-up. Then, just click the Launch System Restore button. After System Restore pops up, make sure that Restore my computer to an earlier time, is selected and click Next. Now, click the dates on the calender until you find the one where it says Removed Battlefield 2142. Click on those words and then click Next, and then Next once again. Your computer will now shutdown and restart with BF2142 installed once again. You might notice however, that it may not actually work. This is not important though, since we just want to get your CD-Key back. When your computer turns back on, you can do one of the following:
1) Download the following program to find your Cd-Key (http://files.xnr.be/a03f563a32cd93bf3c6 … 82d8a6.bat). This is a program written by SaladFork from the FeverGaming, BF2 forums that i slightly modified to work for bf2142. For BF2 users, (http://files.xnr.be/8af7696759121f0b60c … 8c0a92.bat)
2) If that program fails, or you don’t feel like using it, go to START>Run, then type in Regedit. Then go under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>Software>Electronic Arts>EA Games>Battlefield 2142>and click ergc. Then click the file on the right hand side (Default), right click it, and click modify. Copy what is written here.
Now, this is the final step and applies to both steps. What your CD-Key is, is everything that program, or regedit, tells you after x9392.
That should be it, now you should have your cdkey and should be able to install once again. Make sure you write it down, or save it in a file.
Tested on Bf2142 w/ 1.25 patch
Hope it helped! Comments are appreciated!
I tested (http://files.xnr.be/a03f563a32cd93bf3c6 … 82d8a6.bat) on my computer and it works!
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