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by justinf

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Where do you find the Product key in the Windows 2000 registry?

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by dmiles

The product id is located in registry at
HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

by erikdr

Simple answer: NOT. W2K upon installation uses an algorhytm checking the validity of the install key. MS is not so stupid of putting that exact value in the registry afterwards!

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by thechas

I know I saw a tip or utility to extract the product key from the CD, but I can't find it.

The registry key that soulrider gave you does work for 98. But it must be different for W2K.

I did find a site that lists a number of MS product keys.Perhaps, that will help.

bcarr.virtualave.net

I will keep looking for the utility I had seen.

by dmiles

Justin
Microsoft decided to do away with the product key listed in the registry,this was the beginning of there fight against software piracy
Check the techrepublic previous posts on this question,there was a post to a similar that listed how to get around this and discover,use search and type in (how to find product key)answer 2 was most helpful and I think it was posted in Sept.

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