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ProduKey v1.45 - Recover lost Windows product key (CD-Key) and
Office 2003/2007 product key.
Copyright (c) 2005 - 2010 Nir Sofer
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Description
ProduKey is a small utility that
displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003,
Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista),
Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this
information for your current running operating system, or for another operating
system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if
you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it
on your computer.

Versions
History
- Version 1.45
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited
File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added
as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
- Version 1.43
- When the product key is not stored in the
Registry (like in volume licenses of Windows 7), ProduKey will display
'Product key was not found' instead of wrong
'BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB' key
- Version 1.42
- Added 'Copy Product ID' and 'Copy Product
Key' options.
- Version 1.41
- Added /ExtractEdition command-line option.
- Version 1.40
- Fixed ProduKey to display the right product
key of Microsoft Office 2010 Beta (Office 14)
- Version 1.38
- Added sorting options from command-line.
- Version 1.37
- Fixed issue with x64 systems - The 32-bit
version of ProduKey can now also retrieve the product key when you run it
on x64 system.
- Version 1.36
- Added command-line options to control which
types of product keys will be shown. (/WindowsKeys, /OfficeKeys, and
others)
- Version 1.35
- New option: Load the product keys of
external Windows installations from all disks currently plugged to your
computer. When using this option, ProduKey automatically scan all your
hard-drives, find the Windows installation folder in them, and extract
all product keys stored in these Windows installations.
- New Command-Line Option: /external
- Version 1.33
- Fixed bug: In 'Select Source' dialog-box, a
disk drive error message displayed in some computers.
- Added AutoComplete to Windows directoried
combo-box.
- Version 1.32
- You can now send the information to stdout
by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line. (For
example: produkey.exe /stab "" >> c:\temp\prd.txt)
- Version 1.31
- Added the last modified time of the
ProductID Registry key.
- Version 1.30
- New option: display the edition
(Standard/Professional/Enterprise) of Windows 2000/XP/2003. (doesn't work
for remote computers)
- Added AutoComplete for file selection.
- Fixed bug: The main window lost the focus
when the user switched to another application and then returned back to
ProduKey.
- Version 1.26
- Added support for saving comma-delimited
(.csv) files.
- Added new command-line option: /scomma
- Version 1.25
- Added new source option: Load the product
keys from all computers in the specified IP addresses range.
- New command-line option: /iprange
- New option: Check every remote machine with
ping before trying to connect. (Only for Windows 2000 or above)
- Version 1.20
- Added 'Select Source' (F9) option - user
interface for loading the product keys from remote computers or from
external drive.
- Version 1.15
- Added 'Service Pack' column (Only for
Windows entries)
- Added 'Installation Folder' column (Only
for Windows and Office entries)
- Version 1.10 - Added filters by product
type.
- Version 1.08 - The configuration of ProduKey
is now saved to a file instead of the Registry.
- Version 1.07
- Added support for product key of Ms-Office
under x64, when it's retrieved from external Registry file.
- Added x64 build - for locally retrieving
product keys of x64 versions of Windows.
- Version 1.06 - Added support for SQL Server
2005.
- Version 1.05
- Display information in the status bar while
scanning computers with /remoteall and /remotefile options
- New option /remotealldomain - scan all
computers in the specified domain.
- Changes in the way that /remoteall scan all
computers.
- Version 1.04 - Added product key of Exchange
Server.
- Version 1.03 - new command-line option:
/remoteall
- Version 1.02 - On newer versions of Office
(XP/2003) - display the real product name, if it's written in the
Registry.
- Version 1.01 - Added support for XP visual
style.
- Version 1.00 - First release.
Known
Problems
- When running produkey.exe, Some Antivirus
programs displays an alert and/or block you from running it. Click here to read more about false alerts
in Antivirus programs
- According to users reports, for some
versions of Windows 7/2008, ProduKey displays
'BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB' instead of the real product key.
- If you bought your computer with installed
operating system, you may find the Windows product key appeared in
ProduKey utility is different from the product key on your Windows CD.
This problem is mostly reported with Dell computers.
- From unknown reason, the product key of
Visual Stuido .NET is written in the Registry as Office XP product...
- In old versions of Office (Office 2000 and
below), the 'Product Key' value is not available.
Supported
Products List
- Microsoft Windows 98/ME
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows NT
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows 7 (Works only for some of
the Windows 7 versions, see the known problems section)
- Microsoft Office 2000 (Only ProductID is
displayed)
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Using
ProduKey
ProduKey doesn't requite any
installation process or additional DLLs. In order to start using it, simply
extract the files to any folder you like, and then run the executable file -
produkey.exe
If you want, you can also download ProduKey with full install/uninstall support
(produkey_setup.exe), and then install it like any other software.
The main window of ProduKey displays the list of Windows, Office, and SQL
Server products installed on your system. For each product, the "Product
ID" and "Product Key" are displayed. If you want the view the
product key information in another computer, or in another operating system
within the same computer, use the command-line options below.