Extracting the cd key from the registry

November 6, 2002 by Snakefoot | 4 Comments

Updated: 8 December 2007

Comments:

1. Johnno says:

   31 July 2004 at 2:19

   Do you know of any program whcih works in DOS to find the WinXP key? I have a damaged registry and cannot open WinXP, but need the key, as the owner has lost her WinXP Product Code

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2. snakefoot says:

   1 August 2004 at 2:22

   Johnno
   Do you know of any program whcih works in DOS to find the WinXP key? I have a damaged registry and cannot open WinXP, but need the key, as the owner has lost her WinXP Product Code

   Don't know how to extract the CD-Key without running the cd-key utility on the computer.

   Have you tried to boot in safemode ?
   Have you tried to use Last Known Good Configuration ?
   Have you treid to use Recovery Console to restore the initial registry ?

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3. Pedro says:

   15 February 2003 at 6:58

   i wus Wondering what happens Once my Activation expires..?? 30 days Over..?

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4. snakefoot says:

   15 May 2003 at 7:29

   Pedro
   i wus Wondering what happens Once my Activation expires..?? 30 days Over..?

   I believe that after the 30 day grace period WinXP will stop booting normally.

   After this point you will have to boot into safemode(press F8 at startup). In safemode you should still be able to activate your WinXP.

   http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_faq.mspx

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