Comments on: Windows XP and Vista Product Key Recovery

By: Gregory Fernandes

Gregory Fernandes — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:39:40 +0000

Hi,

My problem is like this. I have a HP dv3510nr with VISTA HOM PREMIUM OEM. It crashed for some reason and i can’t get it to recover. I tried to recover from the RECOVERY PARTITION, but it didn’t work. I tried reinstalling Vista from the recovery partion but it stops at the completion stage.

I even tried to install from another VISTA INSTALLATION CD, and the same thing happens. It stops at completion stage.

Can anyone help me out ? Please inform if we need any other details.

thanks
Greg

By: shianne

shianne — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:45:08 +0000

lost product key for xp help

By: Michael Utterback

Michael Utterback — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:08:42 +0000

I cant believe this frekin worked!!!!!! Iv been sitting here for hours trying to fig this out! A couple of beers later and a stroke of luck on the search engine and I GOT IT! Cant thank you enough!!

By: imaz

imaz — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:58:54 +0000

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By: chinmaya

chinmaya — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:13 +0000

i need a window vista product key

By: Suresh Babu

Suresh Babu — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:30:31 +0000

Hello There
I tried this method for a crashed computer and got the key.
But when I punch in the key to install, it says an invalid key.
So I located the digitalproductkey on my working computer registry and decoded the cd key and when I matched against my label, its totally different CD key.
Does it mean that windows changed the encryption process?
I double checked everything. When I run with jellybean, I’m getting
the same CD key as the above process.

By: Spanners

Spanners — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:28:51 +0000

For those having problems finding the DigitalProductID I have found an alternate place to find it.
After loading they SOFTWARE hive you can find the key at HLM > SOFTWARE_00 > Microsoft > Internet Explorer > Registration
This location also has the ProductId which can help you identify which disc was installed.

By: Sami berrezouga

Sami berrezouga — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:42:04 +0000

The keys for windows vista entrepris please i need to this keys :’(
samivip@live.fr

By: Ronny

Ronny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:29:16 +0000

joel to solve ur permission issues right click on the loadhive.exe program and click run as administrator.
my problem is i can’t find the ‘digitalproductID’ in the current version folder. any help?

By: Steve M

Steve M — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:51:16 +0000

Sister’s computer went bits-up… no recorded XP key, of course!
I finally thought I was saved, after several tools that claimed to read external system disk failed. Hope dropped to despair after all the prescribed hives failed to produce a result. After poking around in several dark corners, the following file finally worked for me:
\%SystemRoot%\tmp\software

Thanks!

By: Joel

Joel — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:14:06 +0000

I’m running into permission issues when trying to open using the loadhive. Does anyone have a work around? my hard drive in my laptop won’t boot, but I can see the data if connected as a usb drive.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:32:15 +0000

Thanks a million!!! I had lost my product key for Office Pro 2007 and was trying to instal on my laptop. Fortunately the software was installed earlier on my wife’s laptop and I was able to find and decode the product key using the instructions in this article. Saved me some major heart-ache, thanks.

By: Derek Lee

Derek Lee — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:20:43 +0000

Ok, guess it’s just getting late. I went over it one more time and got it. Thanks a million!

By: Derek Lee

Derek Lee — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:11:30 +0000

I’ve read the whole article and tried the alternate file under the trouble shooting section and having absolutely no luck whatsoever.

By: Stephanye

Stephanye — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:19:29 +0000

I could not find the ntuser.dat file on a Windows XP Spanish installation. I have the sectors and would like to know when the instructions are to get the numbers in bytes 52 to 66, what sector is it referencing. There are several sectors with position 52 to 66 in each sector. Which sector should I get the numbers to decrypt?

By: Stephen Campbell

Stephen Campbell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:38:29 +0000

I have tried all the online key finders and they keep resulting in
BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB. That is because after Vista SP1 and beyond are kept encyrpted in the registry by Microsoft. I cant locate my ntuser.dat file in my user profile and I cannot find this registry entry in my HKLM folders/subfolders. I hope somebody will come up with an easier approach to find and decrypt this information other than this or using any old online key finders that only work for XP and back. Any suggestions, feel free to post.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:36:44 +0000

I have followed the procedures outlined (Now run regedit. Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE you will notice a new sub-key called NTUSER. Starting with NTUSER go to Software > Microsoft > Windows NT > Current Version.

In the right window, double-click on DigitalProductID)I don’t see the DigitalProductID. Any suggestion?

By: JohnDoe

JohnDoe — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:40:25 +0000

hello i have windows key FCKGW ……. How to translate like its 00 11 11 11 00 11 11 11
Thanks

By: Kurd

Kurd — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:36:36 +0000

very thank you!

By: Asgerix

Asgerix — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:18:35 +0000

I’ve noticed a lot of people asking about the algorithm. It is actually quite simple: You interpret the 15 byte code as a number (little endian), and convert to base 24 using these characters as digits: “BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789″ (B=0, C=1, …).

E.g.: The code “73 02 00 00 00 …” correspond to the number 273 in hexadecimal, which is 627 decimal. Calculating the base-24 expansion you get: 1*24^2 + 2*24 + 3. Using the digits above, this translate to “CDF”. The product key is then generated by padding with “zeroes” and adding dashes for every five digits: “BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBCDF”.

Sorry to Dagon Design for revealing the secret!

Regards,
Asger Grunnet