Finding my Windows / CD Key Installed On This PC

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Hello There!

So my friend is having some isssues finding his cd key that he has on his PC installed at the moment.

here is what happend.
When ever he reinstalled windows his key doesnt show up anywhere.

So I was wondering if there is any code I could try working with in C# .NET Visual-Studio as a console application that would locate some general informationa about his PC such as the Windows Key since it is there in the reg file somewhere, I saw some shellbase scripts that only worked for me (W8.1)& since he doesnt have win 8.1 and have Window 7 and it didnt work.

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them & also if I am posting this in the wrong place feel free to tell me.
Thanks!

Posted 15-Dec-15 12:42pm

BladeLogan

Updated 17-Dec-15 23:45pm

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-15T13:54:00

Solution 1

A little Google goes a long way. I found this script[^] in about 5 seconds.

Posted 15-Dec-15 13:54pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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BladeLogan 15-Dec-15 20:15pm

Yeah see, thats what I also found, in about 5 seconds. The thing is, it doesnt work on his machine, so I scrambled up a little bit of code & I made it work. Thanks anyways!

phil.o 18-Dec-15 5:53am

What do you mean by 'it doesn't work'? What is returned? Is there any error message? It could just be that the user does not have the rights to read the registry.

BladeLogan 18-Dec-15 5:56am

My bad I should of accepted a solution, I fixed it!

phil.o 18-Dec-15 5:59am

Ok, no problem. Would you mind formally accepting Dave's answer as a solution, so that your question is correctly flagged as answered? Thanks :)

BladeLogan 18-Dec-15 6:00am

Will do! Thanks for the help! :D