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re: Cleaning Dell Notebook
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 5:54 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1292 messages posted)
That MAY work in ME but I don't have an ME box here at work to check it out. That
location in the registry in XP only shows the same Product ID that you'll see in
Control Panel>System>General. If someone isn't aware that that's not the Product
KEY and formats their drive they will lose their key number and be SOL...unless they
have the COA still affixed to their machine and thus still have the key number. Most
people I would bet will see that ID number because it's easy to find (that's the
first solution in your original response) and think that's what they need. That ID
number is a twenty digit numeric only string. It's important for people to know that
what they should find is the twenty five character ALPHA NUMERIC string that is the
product installation key. That's why I would urge most users to use Aida or SIW because
they're fast and foolproof. The other important thing that readers of this thread
should note is that these Product Keys can only be uses to install the same "version"
of the OS, i.e. retail, OEM, upgrade, volume license, etc. If you have a OEM key
as in this case, it won't work to install an upgrade, for example, on a different
machine.
On Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 5:34 am, Ed wrote:
>The registry key is -
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> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
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>and can be viewed using the program REGEDIT.EXE in the Windows directory. Go to
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> START > RUN
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>and type REGEDIT then click on "OK".
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>And, actually, the batch file I posted works too (and it saves the information to
>a text file):
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>Set DOSpath=%PATH%
>PATH=%DOSpath%;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
>FIND "ProductKey" C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT > C:\Product.txt
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>Ed
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