How do I find the registration key in windows me in the registry?

[gplracer]

My friend lost his key. Before he goes to reinstall how can he get it from his machine? I would assume it is somewhere in the registry but I can not remember where to look. thanks!

 

[Methusela]

Heh!

"my friend..."

Not making fun of you but you must realize how funny that sounds in today's world of software piracy!!

Back to the topic... I have no idea where or how to find that key.

 

[Pollux101]

<< Not making fun of you but you must realize how funny that sounds in today's world of software piracy!! >>



Well, I know where it is but there is a problem...
Win98 and ME use a &quot;different&quot; locking scheme or so they say...
You enter in a different form of the key into 98 and ME and it
saves it as a 95 key in the registry...

 

[gplracer]

He told me he bought his copy. I just thought it would be listed in his registry. I thought it would be ok to ask that. He does not want to use someone elses registration key and I do not want to give him mine.

 

[Pollux101]

Basically you couldn't take it out of the registry... you could however copy the registry install windoze with you code and then replace the registry... the reboot and do a regclean...

 

[medic]

Regedit and search for ProductKey

 

[bacillus]

this works for win98
go Into start, run:type, regedit.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\current version

click on current version.

Look in the right pane for product key.

 

[gplracer]

Thanks that was it!

 

[Brian07]

Can't you just right click on my computer and pull it from there?

 

[CTho9305]

what happens if you change that in the registry to &quot;111&quot; or something stupid like that (anything non-valid)? Will it still work?

Also, I hope micro$haft doesn't add a checker into IE6 that phones home...