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Vulcan

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Game Key Use
« on: November 26, 2012, 09:49:51 AM »

This may of been asked already but I want to be sure.
A game key can be used however many times its needed, right?

in a nutshell I wanted to activate starfarer on a few computers.

I keep the game on a usb, and usually carry it to school. unfortunately it means I have to activate the game on any new computer i use...
Is this a problem at all?  ???
 
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Alex

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Re: Game Key Use
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2012, 09:55:10 AM »

Not a problem in terms of being able to activate. It is going to leave copies of your key in the registry of every computer you've activated on, though.
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Re: Game Key Use
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2012, 10:01:52 AM »

He should be able to delete the key from the registry of the school computer, right? Regardless, a good IT employee should clean the registry of the school computers every once in a while.
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Re: Game Key Use
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2012, 10:07:17 AM »

Yeah - it's in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\fs\starfarer\serial.
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Re: Game Key Use
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2012, 03:16:25 PM »

were set up on win server type deal so i log into whatever computer i'm on. Don't tn think any user data carries over to another account.
I use the same computers too so it wont be on a whole bunch all over the school.  A user cant even get access to any registry either so it shouldn't be able to be lifted... i think.  :-X

Just making sure its ok with you, im graduating this year anyway so my account, along with the rkeys, will be deleted within a year.
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Re: Game Key Use
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2012, 03:18:01 PM »

Thanks for checking :)
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Re: Game Key Use
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2012, 03:27:27 PM »

Thanks for the reply! I can see why everyone loves you hahaha   :D
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