Re: Recovering the activation key from a Win2K installation

From: meiso (meisoat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 04:36:18 PDT

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    On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:27:16PM +0100, George Bolton wrote:
> 
> In Windows 2000, there are in fact two entries, both called "ProductKey",
> one under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion and
> another in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WinNT\CurrentVersion.
> Presumably the reason for the second entry is for backward compatibility,
> but I'm not sure.
> 

neither of these exist under windows 2000 professional. i also did a
registry search for the string ProductKey which turned up nothing.

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