Win XP - Any way to display product key # from within

[Murpheeee]

Is there any way to display the Windows Product key number from within Windows XP?


Edit: Oops wrong forum, MODS please move to OS forum.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Yeah. You click

Start
Settings
Control Panel

then click on the "Learn To Post In The Right Forum" icon.

 

[UNCjigga]

There's a few progs you can download to do this. These progs were originally meant to help those fools with the FCKGW product key switch to a new key prior to installing SP1 on XP. I'm sure its legal if all you want to do is check your ID. That said, I'm sure you know the types of sites where you can find this utility.

 

[radioouman]

Right Here

 

[Mucho]

You could search Google for a small prog ViewKeyXP that will give you the installed key.

 

[johnlog]

Murpheeee,

Run Internet Explorer 6. Click on Help/ About Internet Explorer.

Right in plain sight you should see your Product ID number.

 

[prosaic]

I don't think Murpheeee wants the product ID number. It's the installation "key" that he's looking for. You know, the one that gets lost and without it you can't reinstall Windows (or Office).

There is a nice utility called, appropriately enough, KeyFinder from Magical Jelly Beans which displays Windows and Office installation keys.

- prosaic

 

[ojai00]

Originally posted by: prosaic
I don't think Murpheeee wants the product ID number. It's the installation "key" that he's looking for. You know, the one that gets lost and without it you can't reinstall Windows (or Office).

There is a nice utility called, appropriately enough, KeyFinder from Magical Jelly Beans which displays Windows and Office installation keys.

- prosaic

That's the program that I was going to suggest but couldn't think of the name yesterday That program works great

 

[prosaic]

Yes, it's pretty nice. And the author is adding some new functionality as he goes along.

As for the name... KeyFinder doesn't exactly strike me as being particularly memorable, however approriate it might be. But it's hard to forget Magical Jelly Beans Software!

- prosaic

 

[BMdoobieW]

Originally posted by: prosaic
I don't think Murpheeee wants the product ID number. It's the installation "key" that he's looking for. You know, the one that gets lost and without it you can't reinstall Windows (or Office).

There is a nice utility called, appropriately enough, KeyFinder from Magical Jelly Beans which displays Windows and Office installation keys.

- prosaic

Thank you SO MUCH! I'm about to upgrade my mobo/cpu/hd/ram and was afraid of having to reactivate WinXP because of the massive hardware change. So I went to look for my product key and couldn't find it. I was going nuts until I found this thread and your post! Thank you again!

 

[prosaic]

Yeah, re-activation is dead easy -- even if you have to call Microsoft. But installing in the first place without a valid key -- now THAT is hard!

I think Keyfinder is a nice little program, and the guy that wrote it is good folks, too.

- prosaic

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Murpheeee
Is there any way to display the Windows Product key number from within Windows XP?


Edit: Oops wrong forum, MODS please move to OS forum.

Uh.... hold the 'windows' key and hit 'pause'.

 

[prosaic]

That's the product ID number, not the installation key. It's nice to know, but it won't get the OS installed for you.

- prosaic

 

[Dreadogg]

I think he was tring to say something about who the OS is registered to.