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If you purchased your PC with Windows already installed from a large manufacturer such as Dell or HP, it's likely that Windows was installed using an OEM key instead of the actual key for your PC. Why doesn't the product key returned match the one on my sticker?

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The Key Finder Tool reads the registry and extracts the key that was used to install Windows. When you enter your key while installing, it's checked against an algorithm to verify that the key is valid. Product keys are not stored on CDs themselves. Save is also available in text or CSV.Ĭan I retrieve the product key from the Windows CD?

Improved Save & Print! - save & print options will now include all keys.

You may have to right-click on the Keyfinder and run as Administrator. If you're using Windows Vista, Administrator rights are required for this feature. Then point it to the dead Windows install. To use, put the hard drive in a working machine (must also be Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8) or use Windows PE (not tested, should work) and click Load Hive.

Load Hive option - allows you to load the registry hive of another Windows installation.

Command line options - /save /savecsv /close /hive /file.

This advanced product key finder is not free, however, it doesn't cost much for what it does. If you need something more powerful, compare Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder with a tool called " Recover Keys". Another feature is the ability to retrieve product keys from unbootable Windows installations. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications.

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Note that it does this (install "wrong" edition) even if it later in the process shows that Microsoft will find and use the license for the other edition without logging in on an MS account, it does it by looking up various hardware serial numbers but this happens much later in the install process and only works if you've forced it to the right edition.The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. Windows install bypass the Edition selection when it finds that key in BIOS storage, the workaround for this is to edit one of the file on the install media which forces it to always ask.

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OTOH this stored BIOS license key can be a problem if you're trying to do a clean install of a DIFFERENT edition of Windows (like Pro while the machine came with Home). If it does have the stored key it goes up to 100%.

So you might as well use the most well-known one, Magical Jelly Bean KeyFinder.Īnd in my experience Microsoft will 99 times out of 100 automatically detect and apply the correct key (as long as you select the right Windows Edition) even when doing clean installs on existing hardware even if you don't use a MS account for login and it doesn't have a BIOS stored license key.

So really, only the first method should ever be used, there are other programs and tools that will work but there's no reliable methods that doesn't use tools! If there's no Windows OEM key in the BIOS it will be empty and if you've reinstalled using a different key it will give you the wrong key! It is useful as a way to access the key that comes with the hardware on most newer OEM machines but is no substitute for actually checking what license key Windows actually use.Īnd the third method usually? sometimes? returns a "digital key" that's only valid for the specific install - there's no real use for this since it can't be used even on the same hardware after a reinstall! The OA3xOriginalProductKey method returns the Windows OEM license key stored in the BIOS for pre-installed machines where they used that method to store it - most OEMs do this because this is the only way where they DON'T need to physically affix a sticker with the key on the machine which saves them time.