installing on another computer

i have it currently insatlled on my laptop, but now that im home i want it on my regular computer.Is there any way for me to install it and keep my profile?Or do i have to start all over?

fairly certain you have to start over.. but before you do, just copy over the entire "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\players\profiles" folder over to the new computer after you installed.. then let us know if you have your rank still..

well even if yours works shark, freezie's may not as its a new computer.. new hardware, ect... i heard somewhere that ranks were not held over different computers.. but you can still try..

a reinstall of windows may be fine.. but completely new computer may not.. please do try tho freezie

yup will try this weekend when i get home

i can tell you it doesnt work, because when i send my mpdata and profile to my brothers computer, and pasta it there in the player folder. You dont get the ranks. You get an error and it says you have to start from the beginning.

btw. i dont know how it works when you are using the same cd-key... maybe it is cd-key related or something. so if you have a cracked when i think it wont work

ow btw... uhm... maybe it isnt cd-key related because than you would lost your ranks when you put up another cd-key (for the cracked ones)

and now i need a beer :drunk:

im hoping to try this tonight..

fuck, than it was better for me that i have had write my cd-key somewhere, because i dont know it anymore, so i reinstall or whatever, then i am fucked :angry2:

I think you can see it somewhere ... I remember hearing of a virus that steals CD keys and how they are just in a text file somewhere.

there may be a hardware related crypt in there along with the cdkey
which may be why you can back up and use the same key on the same box and have it work fine...

searched and not found :blink:

i did it today, worked like a charm!!

ah so it must just be cd-key related.

yup, since this is a completely different machine.

uhm my what?
I have cod4 installed but dont know more, but my brother (Mr. Darkwing..if you have seen him play) said something that the cd-key stays in the register from cod4 or something, he will tell me when he gets back from school.

In the older version of COD, it was stored in a txt file called codkey.
But I think the 2nd or third COD2 patch did away with that...
Just enbled hidden files and it wasn't there either.
I'll search the registry later and post back

//EDIT
Cd-Key is stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Activision\Call of Duty 4
Click start->Run-> Type regedit Search (ctrl+f) for codkey. Make sure you are in the cod4 hive, and
not the Cod2 Hive.
You can edit the key and paste the new one in this string.
Hope this Helps.
\\EDIT
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it was to easy to find it like that :Bucktooth: :drunk: but thanks

yeah that works, thats how my brother told me, i didnt know there was something like that

thanks