Re: Recovering the activation key from a Win2K installation

From: Technical Support (bobat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 12:51:36 PDT

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    In my system win2000 server, it is called ProductId
    Not ProductKey
    
    and it is numeric not alpha like the  key on the cd.
    
    
    Bob
    
    
    At 6/29/2001 04:36 AM, you wrote:
    >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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