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Windows Key Finders

Here are a few useful utilities, compliments of  Vic Ferri.
These can come in handy in the event you lose your Windows Product key and need to recover it. Note that Angelfire does not permit downloading exe files and that is why all the files are zipped.

 

Windows 95/98/Me

This one reveals your keys for both Windows 95 and 98/Me
Just double click after downloading to see your key.
Download Win9xProdKey

 

Windows XP

This one reveals your Windows XP key.
Download ViewKeyXP


Windows 2000 and XP

Both of these work with Windows 2000 but "Keyfinder" by Jellybean actually works with all Windows systems and even Microsoft Office, except for Office 2000. "RockXP" works with Windows 2000 and XP only and can also reveal other passwords - such as your email passwords and more.

Download Keyfinder

Download RockXP

 

Using Windows 9x and can't get into Windows to retreive your key?
No problem.  Here's a premade batch file that will get it for you from the Dos prompt.
Put it on your startup disk, boot to the A:\> prompt and simply type KEY and press Enter.
Your will see your key after the words  "ProductKey" in 98.
NOTE: For Windows 95, edit the bat file and replace the word ProductKey with ProductID.

Download Key.zip

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