Like you said, the number found in System Properties is the Product ID, which is 
not the number needed for installing Windows ME (or 98).

However, that is the correct number for Win95. It's the only OS that applies to.

I've had these instr. saved for years but didn't make a note of who posted them. 
:(

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The Product Key can be located from the command prompt (All One line)
Note: Space before and after " " only
type:
C:\Windows\Command\Find /I "ProductKey" C:\Windows\System.dat 

The first line of the screen dump will look like this: 

ProductKey XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX where the X's are your actual CD Key. 

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FIND(space)/I(space)"PRODUCTKEY"(space)"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT". 
Also while 'playing' with the command, I found that by adding - ">C:\ID.TXT" (no 
quotes) to the end of the command, the output can be saved in the file ID.TXTfor 
future reference.

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