{"id":27423,"date":"2012-02-06T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=27423"},"modified":"2012-02-06T11:20:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:20:42","slug":"maketecheasier-com-how-to-recover-your-windows-product-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/maketecheasier-com-how-to-recover-your-windows-product-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Maketecheasier.com: How to Recover Your Windows Product Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imagecdn.maketecheasier.com\/2012\/02\/keyfinder-product-key.png\" alt=\"pptips\" width=\"\" height=\"\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Miguel Leiva-Gomez for MakeTechEasier.com<\/p>\n<p>Losing your product key is something that happens to the best of us, especially when you\u2019re as accident-prone as I am and misplace the box your Windows CD came in. Many people think about calling Microsoft tech support to resolve this issue, only to realize that they\u2019re hitting a brick wall and wasting time. Instead of ruffling through tons of different CD\/DVD cases you\u2019ve kept over the years, you might decide to purchase a new product key or an entirely new license of Windows. Don\u2019t make that mistake and keep that debit card in your wallet! You can use the registry to fetch the product key for your particular Windows license only if you use an older version of Windows, but Vista\/7 need another procedure.<\/p>\n<h3>Where\u2019d The Product Key Go?<\/h3>\n<p>Up until Windows XP, the product key was always stored in the registry, within the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key, under the \u201cProductID\u201d key in \u201cWindows\u201d under \u201cSOFTWARE\u201d, making the path something like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWindowsProductID. Unfortunately, that\u2019s not the case since Windows Vista. It seems that Microsoft wanted to make it difficult for you to find your product key, so that you end up buying another license when you lose one. You don\u2019t have to do this if you use Magic JellyBean KeyFinder. Although it sounds like something fishy, it is a legitimate application that scans your Windows installation for your product key.<br \/>\nOh, and here\u2019s the other thing: The Windows \u201cProductID\u201d doesn\u2019t show the key anymore, but shows a special ID to help Microsoft identify and distinguish between one Windows installation and another. 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