Apologies in advance... im not sure how many times this has
been  told. Anyways, if there is anyone who can give me
some advice on changing my name without losing all the
achievments.
that would be really great.
thank you



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" how to change your name w/o losing your rank"
this is the title of a post in the cod waw 5 section of the forum... seems like i can't bump it for you cause it has been locked.
Hope it help.

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It can be found here: http://www.bkops2.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=500

Or you can follow this too:

This is how you change your in-game name in CoD:WaW WITHOUT losing your progress...


Call of Duty 5: World at War- First off all make sure that you have enabled "show hidden files/folders".

Now, start up Call of Duty 5: World at War Multi Player and make your new profile name, keep your old one!

Now turn off Call of Duty 5: World at War Multi player and start up explorer and, write in the address bar %USERPROFILE%

Now head to

XP:
Local Settings Application Data Activision CoDWaW players

NOTE: If that folder does not exist, try to find a folder instead of local settings, local settings in your windows language (lokala inställningar in Swedish for example).

VISTA:
AppData Local Activision CoDWaW players

NOTE: Just with XP "local" -> might <- be in your windows language. (Unconfirmed)


Here you should see all your profiles, go into the old profile name folder, mark all files and press ctrl + c.

Go into your new profile name, paste all by pressing ctrl + v.

Over and out, also recommended to change "active.txt" to your new profile (to change the profile that gets loaded when starting up CoD:WaW)

You should be done now!

Start up MP and you will have the same rank on both profiles, i.e. same challenges and same classes.

Unfortunately you won't keep your friends list



***HOW TO ENABLE HIDDEN FILES***

Vista

1. Click the round blue Start thing in the left corner
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Folder Options
4. Click the View tab
5. Click Show hidden files and folders
6. If you want to see system files as well, unclick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
7. Click OK

XP

1. Click Start
2. Click My Computer
3. Select the Tools menu
4. Click Folder Options
5. Select the View tab
6. Under the Hidden files and folders heading, select Show hidden files and folders
7. Uncheck the Hide protected operating system files (recommended) option
8. Click Yes to confirm.
9. Uncheck the Hide file extensions for known file types
10. Click OK

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If you can't take the pain, maybe you shouldn't play!

thanks again.

Hawkeye thanks for the post.

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Any time....

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If you can't take the pain, maybe you shouldn't play!

That helped alot.
Thank you

Glad it helped out.....

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If you can't take the pain, maybe you shouldn't play!

Keep that location handy... backup your profile!!!  I recently lost my profile (over 2 prestige levels lost ) so be warned... luckily my last "backup" was my pre-BK profile. I backup my profile regularly now.

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Is there nothing that can be done once the profile is lost? I was just on server 2 and due to some error I was bounced when I restarted the game I was all the way back to lvl1

BigDawg wrote (View Post):

Is there nothing that can be done once the profile is lost? I was just on server 2 and due to some error I was bounced when I restarted the game I was all the way back to lvl1

Nope.  You're out of luck.  Which is exactly why I always tell everybody to backup their profiles.  I keep mine backed up to a separate hard drive and my website.  I use a program called Syncback to run automatic backups daily at 3am-ish.  Use it for that and my Steamapps folder for Steam.  You can find it here: http://www.2brightsparks.com/assets/software/SyncBack_Setup.zip

Old post, new qeustion, How can I back up my profile without useing another program? Can I use whats already here?

To backup you profile just out to the profiles location listed above and copy your profile folder to another location.  If you need help get out on TS im sure someone should be able to help.

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