Looking for your Windows and Microsoft Office product key? Typically, these are stored in the registry, and with the right tools, it's easy to find and retrieve. Show Before you begin, make note that many of these utilities come from a category we call Covert Ops. Almost everything in the Covert Ops category will get flagged by your antivirus or security software because they assume something is trying to modify your registry. This is a false positive. We do suggest that you back up the registry before you proceed. Here's how How to Back up or Restore the Windows Registry. #1: MajorGeeks Windows Product Key Recovery is a simple VBS script to retrieve your Windows product key. We put this together because it uses a known trick that requires no installation and is only 1KB. If you just want to retrieve your key quickly and easily, give this one a try. #2: ProduKey is our top download in this category. It can retrieve productIDs and CD-Keys for Microsoft Office, Windows and more. There's also a video tutorial from MajorGeeks to watch. #3: Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is another tops downloader that uses a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications besides Windows. Last we knew, it was unable to retrieve your product key if you upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 or 8. #5: PK Finder is much more simplistic than most. Just run it, and PK Finder will show you your Microsoft Windows key only. Our download mirrors are the portable version making it even more straightforward to use. If you're not a geek, this is an excellent choice to try first. #4: ShowKeyPlus is for those who have not been able to find their key for one reason or another with the more basic apps. You can retrieve your product version or name, the product ID, the currently installed key and the OEM key. Your license key can be backed up to a text file, and you can even verify that it is valid. It can retrieve the following types of Microsoft Windows keys - OEM: DM, OEM: SLP, OEM: NONSLP, OEM: COA, Retail = Full Packaged Product (FPP), Volume: MAK = Multiple Activation Key, Volume: GVLK = Group Volume License Key, and WAU = Windows Anytime Upgrade. While there are many tutorials on how to retrieve your product key from the registry or a command-prompt, the way Microsoft stores them seems to change frequently making the above app valuable. Similar: Common sense and software companies advise users to save their product keys securely in case they need them in the future, such as when re-installing your operating system. After all, you don’t want to reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows only to find out that you don’t know what your Windows product key is. Unfortunately, that ever-so-important key can sometimes be misplaced or lost. In many cases though, keys can be recovered in Windows—no need to rummage through purchase e-mails or disk cases. We offer two approaches for you to recover your Windows product key: searching through the Registry Editor or with a third party program. However, please note that both methods will require administrator rights to your Windows machine. Windows 7 & Windows 8Registry Editor
Third Party Program You can also retrieve your Windows product key via a third party program such as NirSoft ProduKey, which scans your Windows registry file for the product keys of other software. Install and run ProduKey to view a list of product keys stored in your registry file. However, it cannot find product keys for all programs. Most notably, Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365 do not store their product keys in the registry file.  Office 2010 & Office 2013Office 2010 and Office 2013 do not store their product keys in an easily accessible location in the registry file and many third party programs cannot scan for them. However, you can use a script to find the last five digits of the product key.
Losing a product key does not mean you have to purchase the product again, as most of the time you can recover it by scanning through the registry file. Have you ever lost a product key and needed to recover it? Photo by Nick Perla, taken from Flickr Creative Commons Summary Article Name How to Recover Your Microsoft Product Key - HardBoiled Description Lost your Microsoft Windows or Office product key? Not all hope is lost, as you can recover them with the right tools and know-how. Author Wallace Chu Where are product keys stored in registry?You can try finding the license key location in the registry for a product using the following instruction: Open the RegEdit program. Please check this path in the registry: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<Vendor_name >\<Product_name or Product_name_version>\"
How do I find my Office product key using CMD?Using the command line to check your license type
Open an elevated Command Prompt window. Type the following command to navigate to the Office folder. Type cscript ospp. vbs /dstatus , and then press Enter.
Where is Office 2019 product key in registry?Just sign in to Services & subscriptions with your Microsoft account, locate the Office one-time purchase and then click on the “View product key” link. The Office product key associated with your Microsoft account will appear there. You can write down the product key and keep it somewhere safe.
Can I find my Office product key on my computer?Head to account.microsoft.com from your new device, then see if you can download the apps via your purchase history. But if Office was pre-installed when you bought your PC or laptop, you might find a sticker on the machine itself with the code.
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