Finding Your Lost Call of Duty CD Key
The main site administrator for our gaming team recently had a problem with his Call of Duty 4 CD Key: He couldn’t find it. There is a very simple solution for those running Windows operating systems and playing COD4 to find your CD Key.
Click on “Start” then “Run”
In the “Open” field enter “Regedit” and click on “OK”
Windows Registry Editor will open.
Expand in this order: “My Computer”, “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”, “SOFTWARE”, “Activision”, and finally select “Call of Duty 4″
In the right pane you will see “codkey”. Easy enough huh?
Oh yeah, you can backup this CD key as well just in case you lose your CD case with the key AND somehow the registry gets rolled back to a previous time or gets deleted.
Right click on the “Call of Duty 4″ folder or “codkey” and select “Export”. Save this file in a safe place. If you ever need it again you can double click on the exported key and it will be imported right back into your registry.
nice one mate! just what i needed.
i take it when i format my HD and do a fresh OS install, i just punch this in when promted and all will still be fine, aye?
cheers
greig
Greig said this on August 7th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Should be correct
johndball said this on August 7th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
no tips on how to do this on vista?
daniel said this on August 17th, 2008 at 11:55 am