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Windows Software Licence Keys and Serial Numbers
By Martin English | September 1, 2008
If you want to reinstall your operating system, you need to have the licenses an serial numbers at hand for all the software programs that you have purchased and registered. Obviously, this includes the Windows product key but also other serial numbers for applications like Nero, Office, VMWare and pretty much every other application.
If you want to find the license or find the serial number for a product that you have installed on your system then License Crawler (the web page is in german, alternatively you can save the link to the Licence Crawler zip) could be your best bet.
Many products can only reveal Windows product keys. However, as long as the software is storing its license key in the Registry it will be discovered by the License Crawler. It s compatible with most versions of Windows, starting from Windows 95, right up to Windows Vista. It is a portable application that can be run from any location, which makes it a perfect fit for an USB stick – usefull for tech support staff wanting to find serial or license key data from a users machine.
UPDATE:
Another usefull tool is keyfinder. You can download it from SourceForge.. It is free, totally safe and something that now lives on my memory stick (it’s a portable app). No need to install it – just run the ‘exe’ from inside the zip file.
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