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re: Cleaning Dell Notebook
Monday, May 7, 2007 at 10:55 am
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Posted by Larry (1281 messages posted)

That's not the product key, it's the product ID and will be of no value in installing Windows. It's totally different than the product key, a twenty five character alpha numeric string divided into five groups. It can be found manually in the registry or by applets like Aida32 (aumha.org), System Information for Windows (gtopala.com), and others.

On Friday, May 4, 2007 at 9:10 pm, Ed wrote:
>You must retrieve your Product Key (serial number) before using the Restore CD which
>the laptop's manufacturer supplied.
>
>You will find it (a 20 digit combination of letters and numbers) at:
>
> START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM
>
>Alternatively, you can retrieve it from a DOS prompt by creating a batch file as
>follows-
>
> Set DOSpath=%PATH%
> PATH=%DOSpath%;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
> FIND "ProductKey" C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT > C:\Product.txt
>
>This will save the details in your C: root directory in a file called PRODUCT.TXT
>
>Ed
>
>
>

Written in response to:: re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ed: Friday, May 4, 2007 at 9:10 pm)

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re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Monday, May 7, 2007 at 10:53 pm)

re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ed: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 5:34 am)