Re: Lost product key

From: Eric McG (dontbother_at_att.net)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:35:17 -0500

Supplemental:

If you need the Product Key, any one of these will do it for you:

This freeware utility displays both the OS and Office product keys:

"The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your
Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It has the
options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for
safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Office
97, and Office XP. This version is a quick update to make it work with Windows
Server 2003."

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

If you need more than just the Product Key, one of these freeware utilities will
give you a complete system report. Try Belarc Advisor first.

Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

If you want to know anything about the internals of the system without taking it
apart, download and install a system auditor like Aida32 Personal Edition, found
here:
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=32 

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Hope this helps..Reply in newsgroup only.
Eric McGillicudy
"Eric McG" <dontbother@att.net> wrote in message
news:eVWhmqu%23DHA.2808@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Launch Word, click on Help | About Microsoft Word. The complete Product ID is
> shown there.
>
> -- 
> Hope this helps..Reply in newsgroup only.
> Eric McGillicudy
>
> "Ernie Lane" <elane1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:iqH_b.111449$B81.722066@twister.tampabay.rr.com...
> > I am installing software on a new computer I bought, and I have lost the
> > Product ID from Word 2000.  Is it possible to get this from an installed
> > program (it's on my desktop computer), perhaps from some undocumented
> > procedure, or am I screwed?
> >
> >
>
>

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