Getting Microsoft Product Keys back from the registry (via StackOverflow and various other sources)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/02
Every once in a while, someone hoses their computer far enough that it has to be reinstalled, but the original Microsoft product keys are misplaced, and some creepy anti-virus tool disallows the running of standard product key recovery tools like nirsoft’s.
Well, there is enough sourcecode that does recover it, just look for any of these strings:
- BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789
(the characters that can be in a product key) - DigitalProductId
(the value name where various Microsoft products store their registry entry with encoded product keys)
Some hits:
- C# get Windows CD Key – Stack Overflow.
- PowerShell Code Repository – PowerShell GUI ProductKey.
- PowerShell Code Repository – IronPython Product key.
- PowerShell Code Repository – PowerShell get windows product key.
- SwissDelphiCenter.ch : …retrive Windows Product Key?.
The below full executables can trigger a virus warning (ordered from less often to most often):
- [Archive.is] LicenseCrawler … free to use for non-commercial purposes.
- [WayBack] KeyFinder | Magical Jelly Bean
- [WayBack] ProduKey: Recover lost product key (CD-Key) of Microsoft Office 2003, Office 2007, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows 7, and more.
–jeroen
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