Sunday, July 31, 2005

Reveal Microsoft product keys

Lifehacker blogged about "The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder", which is a Windows utility that will display the CD key of your PC’s currently installed version of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.


If you decide to reinstall from scratch and you’ve lost your CDs or the Windows sticker’s fallen off the computer case, use the Magical Jelly Bean Finder to back up your license for possible reinstallations. This utility lets you change your Windows activation key as well (say, if you’ve installed Windows from an existing disk image and want to activate the new installation with its own key)

It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Office 97, and Office XP. If you have multiple copies of Office installed, it has a dropdown box so you can see each key.

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