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Windows registry

Discussion in 'BG2: Throne of Bhaal (Classic)' started by Sir Feat, Oct 10, 2004.

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    G'day all.

    I've managed to get a working version of Trilogy which I'm a little way into, but now want to change my OS from Windows 2000 to XP with a clean install.

    I have all my games on a separate partition, but will obviously get a brand new registry on a clean install.

    Do SoA, ToB and the mods under Trilogy put very much in the registry or will it still run with no registry entries? (The prospect of doing a fresh install of BGT &tc does not fill me with joy!)

    Regards,

    Sir Feat.
     
    Sir Feat, Oct 10, 2004
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    I've no idea how Trilogy works, but there's only one single thing that SOA and TOB put in the registry: the autorun menu changes, with "Install" being replaced by "Play". If you don't mind having to make a new shortcut to BGMain.exe, then you should have no problem after the clean install. I doubt Trilogy adds anything to the registry anyway.
     
    Ziad, Oct 10, 2004
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    There are some registry entries that you can try to preserve (e.g. the HKLM\Software\Black Isle\...) but you would be hard pushed to preserve uninstall information, which is a bunch of GUIDs elsewhere.
     
    drowling, Oct 19, 2004
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    I dont think you need to uninstall anything if there are no registry entries. Just delete the folders.
    I have SoA and IWD II installed from before my formatting C: and I created shortcuts on my desktop to run both games. No problems.
    However I cant autorun it when I insert the CD.
     
    Shrikant, Oct 19, 2004
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