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XP Home - Need my Product Key - Computer is stuck
Daave wrote:
Justin wrote: Daave wrote: That is why I used the word "or", Justin. For all we know, the PC manufacturer could have issued a new COA sticker along with the upgrade CD along with instructions to affix it to the PC. I doubt it, but it is within the realm of possibility. Good point. I withdraw the statement. However if he threw away the CDs and pamphlets, what makes you think he had the sense to slap a two inch sticker on the ass end of his machine? If such a sticker was supplied, it got tossed within the first week. I wouldn't bet against it. But if you ask him how much he paid for his 2001 F150 CrewCab - he'll be able to find the original sales slip. Next to the TV guide and tickets. |
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XP Home - Need my Product Key - Computer is stuck
"Justin" wrote in message ... Pegasus [MVP] wrote: "Justin" wrote in message ... Mark Adams wrote: "Sonny" wrote: Hello - Turned off my Sony Viao 3 weeks ago all was working fine, turned it on and got a flash of a blue screen & then the computer gives a bunch of loading options - I tried all combinations no good So tried installing my Windows XP Home CD - Note Sony gave this CD as a free upgrade from the Millennium Operating System- Well the computer wants the Product Key Number for the XP disk - which I can't get as the computer won't load any ideas? Should I try a Registry from an earlier date? Have no idea how to do this or where to look - we (my wife) needs files from this computer & I threw out all the boxes that had all the info etc for the computer - yeah I know you Ain't Suppose to do that! Hope someone can help Please Sonny Use your Windows XP CD to construct a Bart PE or an Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows with a keyfinder pluggin. Run the disk on the computer that won't boot and use the keyfinder to extract your product key from the machine. Write the key on your XP disk so you won't lose it, you knucklehead. Now reenter the key when prompted by the install routine. Google "Bart PE" and "Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows" for instructions for constructing the disks. I have yet to find a Windows keyfinder that actually works. Your search must have been very superficial. Both of the following work while Windows is active: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml. http://www.gtopala.com/ (siw.exe - look under "Secrets" in the left column). I have tried both on two separate Dell machines - when I tried to reinstall with the key provided it didn't work. This is probably due to you using an installation CD that is different from the CD originally used by this installation. To say with confidence that a key extractor works or does not work, you would need to compare its output with the key that you *know* was used to install Windows. |
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XP Home - Need my Product Key - Computer is stuck
Justin wrote: Pegasus [MVP] wrote: "Justin" wrote in message ... Mark Adams wrote: "Sonny" wrote: Hello - Turned off my Sony Viao 3 weeks ago all was working fine, turned it on and got a flash of a blue screen & then the computer gives a bunch of loading options - I tried all combinations no good So tried installing my Windows XP Home CD - Note Sony gave this CD as a free upgrade from the Millennium Operating System- Well the computer wants the Product Key Number for the XP disk - which I can't get as the computer won't load any ideas? Should I try a Registry from an earlier date? Have no idea how to do this or where to look - we (my wife) needs files from this computer & I threw out all the boxes that had all the info etc for the computer - yeah I know you Ain't Suppose to do that! Hope someone can help Please Sonny Use your Windows XP CD to construct a Bart PE or an Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows with a keyfinder pluggin. Run the disk on the computer that won't boot and use the keyfinder to extract your product key from the machine. Write the key on your XP disk so you won't lose it, you knucklehead. Now reenter the key when prompted by the install routine. Google "Bart PE" and "Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows" for instructions for constructing the disks. I have yet to find a Windows keyfinder that actually works. Your search must have been very superficial. Both of the following work while Windows is active: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml. http://www.gtopala.com/ (siw.exe - look under "Secrets" in the left column). I have tried both on two separate Dell machines - when I tried to reinstall with the key provided it didn't work. You can't scan and use the number from the factory install. You will need to have installed using the number from the PC case or the CD case. |
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XP Home - Need my Product Key - Computer is stuck
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:48:14 -0400, Justin
wrote: Pegasus [MVP] wrote: "Justin" wrote in message ... Use your Windows XP CD to construct a Bart PE or an Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows with a keyfinder pluggin. Run the disk on the computer that won't boot and use the keyfinder to extract your product key from the machine. Write the key on your XP disk so you won't lose it, you knucklehead. Now reenter the key when prompted by the install routine. Google "Bart PE" and "Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows" for instructions for constructing the disks. I have yet to find a Windows keyfinder that actually works. Your search must have been very superficial. Both of the following work while Windows is active: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml. http://www.gtopala.com/ (siw.exe - look under "Secrets" in the left column). I have tried both on two separate Dell machines - when I tried to reinstall with the key provided it didn't work. Using a program like magicaljellybean on your OEM computer is generally not useful. It shows the key that Windows was installed with, and that's a key that was used by Dell (in your case) to put Windows on many thousands of machine. It is *not* your key and you can't use it to reinstall. You can find *your* key on a sticker on your case--usually on the back of desktops and the bottom of laptops). -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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XP Home - Need my Product Key - Computer is stuck
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:48:14 -0400, Justin wrote: Pegasus [MVP] wrote: "Justin" wrote in message ... Use your Windows XP CD to construct a Bart PE or an Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows with a keyfinder pluggin. Run the disk on the computer that won't boot and use the keyfinder to extract your product key from the machine. Write the key on your XP disk so you won't lose it, you knucklehead. Now reenter the key when prompted by the install routine. Google "Bart PE" and "Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows" for instructions for constructing the disks. I have yet to find a Windows keyfinder that actually works. Your search must have been very superficial. Both of the following work while Windows is active: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml. http://www.gtopala.com/ (siw.exe - look under "Secrets" in the left column). I have tried both on two separate Dell machines - when I tried to reinstall with the key provided it didn't work. Using a program like magicaljellybean on your OEM computer is generally not useful. It shows the key that Windows was installed with, and that's a key that was used by Dell (in your case) to put Windows on many thousands of machine. It is *not* your key and you can't use it to reinstall. You can find *your* key on a sticker on your case--usually on the back of desktops and the bottom of laptops). Usually, you're correct. However I have known people to take those stickers off. Those same people are usually not the same people O choose to hang around with. Nor do they qualify as Rhodes Scholars. |
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