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Biursan
13 years ago
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"Registry is corrupt and has been altered"

How to solve Registry is corrupt and has been altered? I get this when i try to go online.
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Anonymous
13 years ago

Have you modified the registry with regedit in any way?

If so why?

Here's a solution anyway (special thanks to lajakl):

1) Open the Registry Editor by typing "regedit" at the bottom of the start menu, in the search box ( windows 7)

2)  Once you have opened the Registry Editor, go to this path: 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Wow6432Node -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour -> ergc

Click on the arrows next to the folder icons to navigate to the path

3) You should see your serial number in ergc set as something like HGUTJGIDBRY286HG92JG

    Now:

   - Check if this matches with the serial code your game came with

   - make sure there are no spaces

To modify the serial number, right click on "Default" under "Name" and select modify.

If this doesn't work, try the solution here:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Command-Conquer-The-Ultimate/Invalid-serial-number-for-Command-and-conquer-generals-Deluxe/m-p/2312#U2312 #

DigitalGeo

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    thanks for the advice i was able to get zero hour working this way but not generals which sucks , thanks anyay man

  • DeUhhKoei's avatar
    DeUhhKoei
    13 years ago

    Hi,

    Just found out this afternoon the problem within windows 8.  Had the same register failure.

    The solution is quite simple. Just set the program as like starting in windows 7 and give it administrator rights. And suddenly I am able to play all of the mismatch register games. Zero hour, red alert 3.

    Did nothing inside the regedit.

    Paulus

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Finally I have fixed it on my computer with WindowsXP. It seems that somebody made a typo in the source code!

    I can see diffent keys in registry than you wrote:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour -> ergc

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Generals]-> ergc (including ])

    After changing "Generals]" to "Generals" it works!

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    there are two folder in the registery under the C&C folder

    Red Alert 3
    Red Alert 3*

    delete the original and rename the Red Alert 3* to look like original

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I had to do this with red alert 3, but I had to add the key ergc to all of the Red Alert 3 keys in the registyr directy shown.

    Not sure which one worked, but it works now.

    • MenOfRohan3833's avatar
      MenOfRohan3833
      8 years ago

      Can you please elaborate what "add the key ergc to all of the Red Alert 3 keys in the registy" means?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        8 years ago

        It has been a while, but I recall that I navigated to the following location in the REGISTRY;

        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Wow6432Node -> Electronic Arts -> EA Games -> Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour -> ergc

        Here I manually re-entered all of my product Serial Numbers for Red Alert 3 and DLC.

        This resolved the error for me after a reboot.

        - Failhelm/Irdenholt

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    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    It isn't any of your business why I changed my regedit.  But since you seem ignorant of the fact, the registry which supports all things in windows gets bogged down and corrupted.  Thus cleaning up a registry is absolutely common.  How can you not know this?

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      12 years ago

      How can I fix this for RA3 on Windows XP? I have not seen a working solution for C&C RA3 on Windows XP.

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