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Post by StichezZ » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:10 am

Wow! i've reinstalled steam, tf2, vuze and world or warcraft in the past week because someone in my house keeps reformatting the computer. This is getting so tiresome. does anyone know a way i could protect all my games so that cant be deleted during reformatting. i have a back up hardrive on my comp to if that helps with suggestions, so please fellow villuns help me!!

and i think this is in the wrong froum, so sorry my bad.
omg i just saw the tech forum sorry again
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Post by Dog » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:32 am

If you have more than one drive, move everything over to drive D and delete clientregistry.blob then restart Steam.
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Post by Clay Pigeon » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:34 pm

Have you considered password locking your computer, so unauthorized users cannot successfully boot?
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Post by MrBlah » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:13 pm

With ALL steam games, ALL mmos(well hopefully all, I know WoW and most others)

If you install it on a secondary HDD, you wont have to reinstall the games because the Keys are "stored" off your computer via your account.
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