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XP home product key
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| DaDnDe 2004-02-27, 1:41 pm |
| one of the people that i built a system for decided that he wanted to reinstall his os because he was frustrated with the amount of crap his kids put on the system.
well to make a long story short, he lost his product key. now i know that his disk was valid as i bought the disk and installed if for him the first time. now i am in the habit of registering XP for anyone who wants me too and i did register his, so is there anyway we can get the product key from that?
on all my computers i take the sticker and stick it to the machine the os in on so i dont have to fumble through a pile of keys wondering which is which, unfortunately, he did the same thing and also has 4 year olds running around...
sooo is there anyway to retrieve this? he has already reformatted the drive so any possibility of recovering it is gone. | |
| enforcer 2004-02-27, 1:50 pm |
| If you registered it with microsoft, contact them they should be able to provide you with the info. They may ask some detailed questions though. | |
| DaDnDe 2004-02-27, 1:59 pm |
| details i can provide, i keep a copy of all orders made for every system i build including invoices for parts, (mostly cause i buy everything on line and i do it to verify my credit card charges)
its things like this that changes my record keeping, because from now on, i will probably keep track of the product ids along with everything else. as it is, i have all serial numbers, software versions that i installed, etc...
im kinda kicking myself a little because i always provide a type of recovery disk for my customers. it is just a lot of useful programs that they might need in case they do this kind of stuff.
i have a super boot disk, win98 bootdisk with CD ROM drivers, adobe, winzip, driver updates for the hardware if there any besides the disk the hardware came with etc...
now i probably put the excell viewer in there to and a copy of the records i keep... | |
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| DaDnDe 2004-02-27, 4:35 pm |
| problem has been solved...
in fact, if they are doing as i suggested, they should be close to finished with all their windows updates. | |
| Deja-vue 2004-02-27, 4:41 pm |
| next time, do a search on Google for "Magical Jellybean Keyfinder".
This program will display your Reg-Key, even lets you change it.
Please respect the laws.
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| Deja-vue 2004-02-27, 4:43 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by PoorboyTech
Deja's Dark Secrets or something?
Now that is funny..... | |
| enforcer 2004-02-28, 1:50 pm |
| Deja gets my vote to play the part of the Defence against the Dark Arts teacher in the next Harry Potter movie.  | |
| Sexy Lexy 2004-02-28, 2:20 pm |
| At least he didn't say the dog ate it.
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| DaDnDe 2004-02-28, 2:25 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by Deja-vue
next time, do a search on Google for "Magical Jellybean Keyfinder".
This program will display your Reg-Key, even lets you change it.
Please respect the laws.
Why??
calling microsoft was a 3 min project. |
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