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Between a factory reset and a reinstall, it was tough. Since Windows 8, we have two new options: Refresh and Reset. Which one is right. From scratch, remember to back up all your data. Don’t forget to include the serial numbers and product keys of programs you would like to reinstall.

Here we’ll show you how to recover lost product keys or find serial numbers stored on your system, including 25 characters govern your Windows system. Your product key is worth $100 or more, whether or not you upgraded to Windows 10. We explain what you can and can't do with your Windows license.

Third Party Tools The following tools may trigger your antivirus. Be advised that this is a false positive. The utilities listed below are free, malware free, and safe to use. ProduKey is a small from NirSoft that can recover Microsoft product keys, including Windows, Office, and Exchange.

It also supports Visual Studio and selected Adobe and Autodesk products. If you’re looking for a serial number that doesn’t fall into one of these software categories, try one of the other tools below. To view the product key information of software installed on another computer or within another operating system, you can use several command line options as outlined on PrduKey’s download page. /remoteall for example will enumerate all computers on your local network.

This tool officially supports Windows 10 and all other Windows versions down to Windows XP SP3, including both 32- and 64-bit versions. Rather than just displaying the license numbers of installed software, it creates a full profile of your system. Once the scan has completed, it will launch a report in a new browser window. The Belarc Advisor report includes a list of software licenses, but also software versions and usage, and countless other details about your system.

If you like this tool, you might also like System Information for Windows, which will produce a similar system report. The portable LicenseCralwer can recover a wide range of serial numbers and registration keys from the Windows registry. If you experience an error when trying to start up the program, try this: right-click the EXE file and select Run as administrator.

Point it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to search for serial numbers. The scan is thorough and will take much longer than with any of the other tools. Once the scan has completed, head to the File menu to save or encrypt the results.

Under Tools you can also decode or encode LicenseCrawler dumps. Note that this program is supported by ads, though it doesn’t come with any adware or malware. This key finder supports over 300 programs, runs on 32- and 64-bit systems and will recover serial numbers from a non-bootable Windows system.

It retrieves serial numbers from the registry, meaning it won’t find keys stored in the BIOS or outside the registry. Like with ProduKey, power users will appreciate its command line options. This oldie looks much like a clone of Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder. The free version supports 200 of the most common programs. It supposedly only runs on 32-bit versions of Windows, but it launched fine on our 64-bit system. As an alternative, you can try the more powerful version 1.06 () or one of the other free tools above.

Note that this utility requires the You either need to install or update it. But do you know what the.NET Framework is? We show you why you need it and how you can get the latest version. Windows Registry If you’d rather not use a third party tool, you can manually scan for product keys in the Windows registry. Press Windows key + R to launch the Run menu, type in cmd, and hit ENTER.

Now search the registry for the software in question and keep hitting F3 until the serial numbers shows up in the data column. Alternatively, if you’re only looking for your Windows product key, you can let a script do the hard work for you. Open Notepad, paste the following bit of code, and save the file as productkey.vbs (the file extension VBS instead of TXT is crucial).