You should have a \City of Heroes\ directory that contains the full client.
I have to point out that simply copying the files wont work though.
Once you copy the files back over, you'd still have to "reinstall" the registry to make it work. You can do this by copying the updater file to your desktop, and when it asks you where to install, select the location that you moved the \City of Heroes\ directory to.
Then when the patcher runs, it will see the current game files already there, and allow you to play without having to do any re-downloading.
I do believe if you search for "BillZBubba" his signature contains a link to the reinstall/copy/test install guide. Searching for "Test" in the Guide to Guides thread in the Player's Guides forum should also net you this guide.
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Guide for Moving CoH or Installing Test by BillZBubba
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Not to replace Bill's guide, but these are the steps I use when reinstalling...
1: Copy the entire City of Heroes directory that resides in the installation directory (C:\Program Files\City of Heroes for example). If you need to save room, you can prune the screenshots folder down, but you'll always need about 2.8 GB of space.
2. Prepare for reinstall... Reinstall the OS if you are wiping the machine, patch it up.. whatever...
3. Reinstall the game using any set of game disks. I use the CoH Collector's DVD because I don't have to switch out disks.
4. After it is finished start the updater.. It'll update the updater once or twice before it starts downloading the game updates. Stop it once it switches to downloading 2.x GB.
5. Copy the original installation over the new installation - i.e. replace City of Heroes directory (new installation) with City of Heroes directory (original installation).
6. Restart the updater. It should verify the files, after which it will be ready to play.
This way you'll keep your screenshots and your demorecords. 
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5. Copy the original installation over the new installation
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This way you'll keep your screenshots and your demorecords.
[/ QUOTE ] If they are in your CoH folder, and you copy the folder, you'd keep them anyway.
For the experts who are comfortable changing their registry:
You can export your CoH section to a *.reg file and then import it onto the new OS registry. That will transfer over your client graphics preferences as well. Providing you put the files into the same directory you had before, you shouldn't have to make any manual edits.
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5. Copy the original installation over the new installation
[/ QUOTE ]Installing a full version and then immediately overwriting the installation is quite a messy way to do it. The updater file itself can easily install the registry properly, which is all you need. Besides.. not everybody has a "hard copy" disc installation.
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This way you'll keep your screenshots and your demorecords.
[/ QUOTE ] If they are in your CoH folder, and you copy the folder, you'd keep them anyway.
For the experts who are comfortable changing their registry:
You can export your CoH section to a *.reg file and then import it onto the new OS registry. That will transfer over your client graphics preferences as well. Providing you put the files into the same directory you had before, you shouldn't have to make any manual edits.
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It worked, sorta. Explorer was throwing fits (not Iexplore... the actual filesystem browser) and locking up as I was trying to burn the game files to a DVD... Apparently about 807MB's got corrupted. all the sound and music files... why couldn't it of been smaller files that got hammered mid-burn?
Meh, guess I should consider myself lucky any of it burned at all. lol. But its downloading the other files, the ones that did burn checksummed properly so theres no issues with that. but 807MB is alot better than a 2.8GB download on a phone-as-modem connection through sprint anyday. lol
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5. Copy the original installation over the new installation
[/ QUOTE ]Installing a full version and then immediately overwriting the installation is quite a messy way to do it. The updater file itself can easily install the registry properly, which is all you need. Besides.. not everybody has a "hard copy" disc installation.
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This way you'll keep your screenshots and your demorecords.
[/ QUOTE ] If they are in your CoH folder, and you copy the folder, you'd keep them anyway.
For the experts who are comfortable changing their registry:
You can export your CoH section to a *.reg file and then import it onto the new OS registry. That will transfer over your client graphics preferences as well. Providing you put the files into the same directory you had before, you shouldn't have to make any manual edits.
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It worked, sorta. Explorer was throwing fits (not Iexplore... the actual filesystem browser) and locking up as I was trying to burn the game files to a DVD... Apparently about 807MB's got corrupted. all the sound and music files... why couldn't it of been smaller files that got hammered mid-burn?
Meh, guess I should consider myself lucky any of it burned at all. lol. But its downloading the other files, the ones that did burn checksummed properly so theres no issues with that. but 807MB is alot better than a 2.8GB download on a phone-as-modem connection through sprint anyday. lol
[/ QUOTE ] I should have mentioned this before.. but I found it beneficial to use a USB flash drive instead of burning DVDs. You should be able to use a 5gb drive fairly easily.
Unfortunately there comes that time when you have to wipe EVERYTHING on your computer... *cries* And I have the entire CoH program downloaded... (over phone as modem... that was a trial and a half...)
and I really, REALLY don't feel like going through all that again just to get this game. So I'm trying to figure out where the stored files are that are used in the updater and where the online setup stores those files so I can burn them to a DVD, reinstall windows, create the folder that the files should sit in and then just dump them from the DVD into there to get it to install properly (should work no?)
So does anybody know where it stashes these files? (vista home premium x86 system)