Finding Serial Key Of Software In Registry
There are many backup software on the market and some of them does a really good job in making sure that there is an exact copy of the important files available at the backup drive. Although backing up of files is important, many people forget to backup the Windows product key or third party software license that is installed on their computer. When their computer crashes and had to reinstall everything from scratch, they had to go through the trouble of searching for the license number to activate the software that they’ve purchased. If the license key are misplaced and forgotten, they’d have to contact the software support team and provide them with proof of purchase so that they can reissue the license.
The problem is software licenses aren’t stored in one standard location where you can just copy the whole folder to backup and then paste it back to reactivate all the software. They are stored all over the place either in a form of an external file or a registry key. Fortunately we found 10 software that can scan your computer and recover the lost or forgotten product key licenses so you can back it up in case you need to reactivate them again. Computer technicians can also use these software to help customers recover their software license numbers from non-bootable drive.
1. LicenseCrawlerLicenseCrawler is a portable license recovery tool that is free for private use. It scans the registry area on local and remote computers located at the same network for available serial numbers for Windows, Office and third party applications. The amount of software license that LicenseCrawler can detect is unknown because there is no such information being published at their website or program. Since it is free, you can run it and cross check if it is able to reveal the license for the shareware installed on your computer. Works on all versions of Windows including both 32-bit and 64-bit.
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2. MSKeyViewer Plus
MSKeyViewer Plus is free and portable. Although the name of this tool sounded like it can only view Microsoft key, but it also support Office and third party applications as well. To view the supported applications, run the program, click the About button and followed by clicking the Supported Products button. The list of supported product seems a bit outdated because this program itself was last updated nearly 2 years ago.
Here is a couple of utilities that can get the product key offline, by loading the Software registry hive. This can be especially helpful after you upgrade to Windows 10 and need the Product key of your Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation to activate Windows under the free upgrade or digital entitlement scheme. The best Windows 10 product key finder: find all your Microsoft serial numbers By Cat Ellis 2018-01-15T15:40:14.14Z Software Find the serial numbers for Windows and other software.
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If you lose a serial number for a computer game or program, it can take a bit of effort to find it. Many computer programs store the serial number in the Registry file, which is a database where Windows allows computer programs to store their settings for profiles, user data, and more. ProduKey now tries to extract the key from DefaultProductKey Registry key if the product key cannot be found in the standard location of Windows 7 product key. Version 1.60 Added support for SQL Server 2008. Version 1.56 Fixed a bug with the 'N' character location on the product key of Windows 8. Version 1.55. You will find the serial number at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE ScanSoft NaturallySpeaking10 Activation folder. Option #4: Search the Registry on the Machine on Which Dragon is Located. Click “Start > Run” in Win XP. In Vista or Window 7 just click Start 2. Type “REGEDIT” without the quotes and click “OK”. If you go into regedit and browse to the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 9.0 Registration. The Product Key can be found in the ProductID Registry Key. Hope that helps!
3. Product Key Finder
Product Key Finder is free but take note of the adware installation when installing this program. It is a very simple program that claims to support over 200 programs but without a detailed listings. Running the program will instantly list all the license number and allows you to backup to a CSV file by clicking the Save button. Only support 32-bit Windows operating system.
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4. Softkey Revealer
Softkey Revealer is free and portable program that is able to support retrieving licenses from a huge list of software which can be found on this page. Other than just depending on the signature that they created, it also seems to list keys with the value username, password, user and etc. The program is very small in size at only 200KB in size and even comes with additional tools to decrypt Adobe encrypted key, removing content advisor password and changing the current Windows key.
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5. Keyfinder Thing
Keyfinder Thing is probably one of the most popular free tool to help you recover product keys from your computer. It supports a total of 90 software titles which can be viewed from the View > Software List. You can save the results from the File menu. Take note of the installation of adware during setup.
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6. Magic Keyfinder 2012
Magic Keyfinder 2012 is actually a shareware but the you can use it for free with a huge limitation where only the first 10 digits of the supported product keys are displayed. The actual amount of supported software are unknown. Other than using their database signature, you can also use the deep scan where it detects a certain keywords and determine that it is a possible license key. During testing, only 5 digits from our Windows 7 product keys are being displayed.
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7. Product Key Viewer
Product Key Viewer is a shareware that supports retrieving license key over 1000 applications from your computer. Only the Pro and Tech version will report activation keys for third party applications. The Lite version will only locate the Windows and Office product keys. You can test Product Key Viewer to identify what software is being identified on your computer for free except the data are being partially hidden.
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8. Product Key Finder by Top Password
The name of this software is exactly the same as the one listed under number 3 except this is a shareware that cost $17.95 and developed under a different company called Top Password. The amount of supported software is unknown but the official webpage did mention Windows, Office, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, VMWare, Adobe and many other products. The results are displayed instantly upon scanning. It supports scanning the current system, remote system or even on non-booting systems. Works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
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9. Product Key Explorer
Product Key Explorer is a shareware that cost $29.50 that supports more than 4000 software and games as well. You can view the complete list of supported products at this page. You can scan both local and remote computers with the built-in option to use a different login credentials. The results can be saved to an external file or a registry file.
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10. Recover Keys
Recover Keys is developed by the same company as KeyFinder Thing except that this is their shareware version that supports over 3000 software titles including games. It cost $24.95 to unlock the program or else it will only show the first 4 characters of the license number. It also comes with advanced features to scan multiple computers through IP range or manually selecting the computers that is available on the network.
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Editor’s Note: After testing the 10 product key recovery software above, the software that stood out in the tests are LicenseCrawler and Recover Keys. Both of this tool managed to retrieve additional licenses that weren’t detected on the other 8. Although some of the software claims to support recovering license keys from more than a few thousands software, it is possible that the software installed on your computer is not in the list. You can definitely make a request by contact them to include it in their database.
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This tool is pretty handy if one needed to reformat their PCs incase of things might go wrong. Anyway, good post. Keep it up! Regards.
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How do I get the Product and Serial Number of ASUS EeePC netbook on Windows (XP preferably)?
Edit: I am not a label reader and I am interested to retrieve the two numbers by software or tool.
wonea4 Answers
I can see two ways to do this:
Type 'msinfo32' on your 'Run'(Windows Button+R). Search for 'System Model' or 'System Serial'. Certainly you will find the information that you need here.
SIW(System Information for Windows):
SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that analyzes your computer and gathers detailed information about system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
Or even a 3th option:
- If you until don't find what you are looking for, you would try looking over windows registry(Windows Key+R / 'regedit'), go to
HKLMHARDWAREDESCRIPTIONSYSTEM. There is a lot of information about your system an about your BIOS here.
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You can also do this from the command line by typing wmic bios get serialnumber
This will give you the laptop or desktop computer serial number.
wmic csproduct get name will give you the computer model.
I can confirm these both still work in Windows 7.
Documented here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/558124
Jason AllerLook here.
From the site:
Overturn your EeePC. There will be a sticker with with the Serial Number (SN:). That is your serial number. But if like mine, with time, the Serial Number on my EeePC has disappeared, then what ?!
Instead of my Serial Number, the sticker has become blank ! Shame on you Asus for using disappearing ink for the serial number.
If you still have your EeePC package box, then the Serial Number (SN:) is printed on the box. If you don't have the EeePC packing box then you can check the Invoice of your EeePC. The EeePC serial number will be mentioned in your Invoice.
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There is one last way you can find out your Computers manufacturing serial number.
This will only work if you have your original battery. Remove your battery. Under the battery you will find a sticker (hopefully as it is hidden inside, the number would not have disappeared with wear and tear).
MaQleodMaQleodIf for some reason the sticker is not there, you can use software tools to recover the product key and get the model of your system. Belarc Advisor is one such tool.
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