Today i´ll try to explain what to do to safe your current ingame ID.

First you have to know that an ID is the unique Number you get if you start going online in Freelancer. This ID can´t be restored if it´s lost.

So i´ll, for special reasons (which i will explain later on), tell you what do to do safe your ID, so that you can uninstall Freelancer without losing your characters and change between different ID´s, what enables you to have more than five characters.

Ok, you start with the following steps:

Look after the Execute-Button in your Startmenue (it depends on which windows you have)

Type in "regedit" (i just know it for Windows XP)

if you´re in the registry-editor go to there:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

then look out for "Software"

after that "Microsoft" then "Microsoft Games"

There you go to the Freelancer-folder and open it, another folder called "1.0" will show up.

that´s the complete path to the folder in which you´re ID takes it´s place:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\1.0


now you have two options to go on to get your ID safed.

The first is to just Export the folder to anywhere it is easy to find it again. For this just klick on "File/Datei" and choose "export" , name your ID as you wish and place it beside Freelancer or wherever it is ideal for you.

The second is to just take the File "install key" and export it the same way as explained before.

After that you can switch between ID´s without loosing your own characters.

That is also important for common Clan ID´s, one of them will be shared to you the next time.


To switch between the ID´s you just go offline with the one ID, do a doubleclick on the second ID you want to use, and go online again.

That´s it.


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IF you want to create a new ID, then just delete the old entrances in the registry and with your next multiplayer-start you´ll get a new ID generated.

But don´t forget to safe your former ID, otherwise you loose all you´ve achieved til then.