How to find out what cd key someone is using?

[Jhill]

My friend lost his windows xp cd key. Is there a way he can recover his cd key from his computer to see what it is? I know it is a legal copy because I was there when he bought it. If his computer crashes and he has to reinstall he is going to be screwed.

Anyone?

 

[rch4001]

this was covered in a thread earlier this week. see discussion here



look at this link

 

[Jhill]

Thanks for the help. Do you know how to run the application that was in that thread? I unzipped it and clicked on the.exe file but nothing happens.

 

[mcveigh]

run it from a dos window

 

[RalfHutter]

Jhill - YHPM.