How to recovery the Windows 7 product key

Anonymous
2011-01-10T14:38:21+00:00

original title: Hi i have an activated win7 pro version. It is running slow now days and i was thinking to reinstall it but the big problem is that I have lost the serial Key.

Hi i have an activated win7 pro version. It is running slow now days and i was thinking to reinstall it but the big problem is that I have lost the serial Key. any one know how i get it back from my pc? I am really stuck! Any help will be great.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Licensing and activation

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Anonymous
2011-01-10T14:44:48+00:00

Here are some utilities, all of which will display your product keys:

Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

(It does a good job of providing a wealth of information.)

Also: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

and: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

Note: Also check the side of your PC case or bottom of the laptop for the

OEM key code. If there is a sticker with the code it will most likely not

match what is displayed by the utilities mentioned above as OEMs such as

Dell use an internal key code when they build your PC.

The key code on the sticker is for use with your Windows CD

(that hopefully came with your PC)

if you ever need to reinstall Windows.

JS

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-01-11T13:49:20+00:00

    Good find Noel !

    In that case Tass, try Belarc Advisor.

    JS

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-11T13:26:24+00:00

    "J W Stuart" wrote in message news:6b7dae0a-20b4-43cd-85a0-53232d1c3f7b...

    The key is encrypted and store in the registry. If the registry has be corrupted you may never be able to retreive it.

    JS

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    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

    Microsoft Windows 7 (Works only for some of the Windows 7 versions, see the known problems section)

    <quote>

    According to users reports, for some versions of Windows 7/2008, ProduKey displays 'BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB' instead of the real product key.

    </quote>

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    Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-11T12:07:03+00:00

    The key is encrypted and store in the registry. If the registry has be corrupted you may never be able to retreive it.

    JS

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-01-11T11:09:21+00:00

    "Tassaduq" wrote in message news:612ab45c-28e9-4294-b9e5-a404faf03100...

    the utility reported the key bbbbb-bbbb-bbbbb-bbbb which it is getting from the registry and it is BBBB-BBBBB not like qw4hd-dqcrg-hm64m-6gjrk-8k83t

    It is not getting my old key :(

    This is a known problem with some keys - it's not known what it signifies, but there's a possibility that the key is still present and genuine.

    Please do me a favour - run the MGADiag tool on the system and post the report - it'll at least give you the last three groups of characters anyhow (I have no idea how or if you'll be ale to get the first two, if ALL the utilities JWS pointed you at are unable to show them)

    To properly analyse and solve problems with Activation and Validation, we need to see a full copy of the report produced by the MGADiag tool (download and save to desktop -http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012 )

    Once saved, run the tool.

    Click on the Continue button, which will produce the report.

    To copy the report to your response, click on the Copy button in the tool (ignore any error messages at this point), and then paste (using either r-click/Paste, or Ctrl+V ) into your response.

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    Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC | The Three-toed Sloth

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