How To: Recover Lost Product Keys of Microsoft Products

Have you lost Microsoft Office product key or the keys of other Microsoft products such as Windows XP, Exchange server and SQL server? Or, did you just buy a new system without an OS and trying to use the product key of your existing Windows OS but you don’t remember where did you store the product key?

Not to worry, a small utility - ProduKey will help you recover product keys in no time. This handy tool scans through your system to recover cd key from registry and can also help you retrieve licence key for windows from a previous installation. All you have to do is download the free tool from the website of [nirsoft] and put it to work. Some noteworthy features of this free tool are:

• Enumerate all systems on your network and retrieve product keys from them. This can take time and also requires remote registry access from system you run this tool on.
• Domain specific system enumeration to load the product key information.
• Show product key from another installation of OS on the same system.
• Ability to save the found product key information in HTML, TXT, tab-delimited txt files and XML files.

And finally, when your Microsoft product keys are recovered, make a note of them and store in a safe place for future purpose. On the other hand, if you have completely formatted your system or no longer have access to the system which had your products installed, there is nothing this tool can help you with, Microsoft’s support may be the only option left for you to obtain the existing or a replacement of windows XP product key.