St0rmSlaSh Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) I accidently deleted ET and when I reinstalled it, I entered my user and the exact same colors I had, but I lost all my xp and admin lvl!!! Can anyone help me?!?! Can I just use system restore? Edited August 20, 2015 by Storm5638 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanaraud Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 Do you happen to have old ETKEY and silent.dat saved somewhere? If not then the XP is lost for this time. For next time go to ET\etmain and save ETKEY and from ET\silent "silent.dat" for future mishaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackknight8653 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I accidently deleted ET and when I reinstalled it, I entered my user and the exact same colors I had, but I lost all my xp and admin lvl!!! Can anyone help me?!?! Can I just use system restore? Just like Vanaraud mentioned, if you have copies of your ETKey and silent.dat, you could recover your XP and admin level. You could only system restore your computer assuming you created a system restore point previously. If you do not have copies of your ETKey and silent.dat, you can only generate a new etkey and paste it in your etmain folder. You can post a topic on tracker to try to regain your XP and admin level. Although you have to take note that this is based on a case by case basis. It is also important to note that if you generate a new etkey, please add your new ET and silent guids in your profile. You can access the tracker here : http://fearless-assassins.com/tracker/ I am still working on a backup function in RestoreET Extended to try to alleviate this problem. This way you can backup your important files reducing such cases in the future. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader RedBaird Posted August 20, 2015 Leader Share Posted August 20, 2015 If you are using Windows, then System Restore is used to restore the operating system to a previous state saved by you or by Windows, unless you are speaking of a third-party program. Beware the computer manufacturer's "restore to defaults" by whatever name it uses. If you did a "simple delete" of your ET-installation, then you might find it in your Windows Recycle Bin. If that is true, then perhaps you could find your etkey and silent.dat files there and use the Bin's Restore function to put them into your new installation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St0rmSlaSh Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 If you are using Windows, then System Restore is used to restore the operating system to a previous state saved by you or by Windows, unless you are speaking of a third-party program. Beware the computer manufacturer's "restore to defaults" by whatever name it uses. If you did a "simple delete" of your ET-installation, then you might find it in your Windows Recycle Bin. If that is true, then perhaps you could find your etkey and silent.dat files there and use the Bin's Restore function to put them into your new installation. the problem is though, is that I emptied my recycle bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meow Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 How do you accidentally delete a game o.o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackknight8653 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 How do you accidentally delete a game o.o I think he went to Program Files and delete the folder. Although that is not the proper way to uninstall a game. I am not sure how he delete the folder as usually there is a notification which ask you if you are sure you want to delete the folder when you click to delete. People can make mistakes so it is fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leader RedBaird Posted August 20, 2015 Leader Share Posted August 20, 2015 (edited) I think he went to Program Files and delete the folder. Although that is not the proper way to uninstall a game. I am not sure how he delete the folder as usually there is a notification which ask you if you are sure you want to delete the folder when you click to delete. People can make mistakes so it is fine. I had a boss who thought that deleting a shortcut in Windows would uninstall the program, like his Mac did. BlackKnight Storm5638 , did you do that? (cross fingers in hope ) Edited August 20, 2015 by RedBaird corrected the name! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackknight8653 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I had a boss who thought that deleting a shortcut in Windows would uninstall the program, like his Mac did. BlackKnight, did you do that? (cross fingers in hope ) Haha. Don't worry. I uninstall programs through the control panel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St0rmSlaSh Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Haha. Don't worry. I uninstall programs through the control panel. What I did do is I accidently deleted an important folder, and when I deleted the folder, ET couldn't run. So I just deleted all of the files associated with ET and reinstalled it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackknight8653 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 What I did do is I accidently deleted an important folder, and when I deleted the folder, ET couldn't run. So I just deleted all of the files associated with ET and reinstalled it again. I see. It is ok. Next time remember take extra precaution before deleting a file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St0rmSlaSh Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 I see. It is ok. Next time remember take extra precaution before deleting a file. Okay. I will totally take precaution next time. XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnknown Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 So l searched the etmain folder for the ETKEY, and l didn't find it. I found the silent.dat but not the other one. Help? I want to save my xp for later. Seems l am going to get the whole damn game to my USB then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aniky Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 So l searched the etmain folder for the ETKEY, and l didn't find it. I found the silent.dat but not the other one. Help? I want to save my xp for later. Seems l am going to get the whole damn game to my USB then. Odd, are u having only one ET folder? Did u just install the game or? Basically the etkey should of been there if u already played, meaning u would have XP and any potencial admin level saved up on it. U can as well download one from here : http://etkey.org/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnknown Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Odd, are u having only one ET folder? Did u just install the game or? Basically the etkey should of been there if u already played, meaning u would have XP and any potencial admin level saved up on it. U can as well download one from here : http://etkey.org/ No, l have all the files but only the ETKEY file is missing, or it has a different name. Anyways, l will continue searching, maybe l missed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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