Re: Recovering the activation key from a Win2K installation

[Technical Support <bob () dexis net>]

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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