How to recover a lost serial number for Windows or other Microsoft programs
It’s not often you need to know the serial number for you installation of Windows or Microsoft Office… which is probably why when you do need that information, it’s not always so easy to remember where you put it.
Make Use Of has an article about a program you can run from a memory stick that will dig up that serial number for you:
If the machine is still up and running and you have access to it you can install a tiny program that will give you the serial numbers for installed Microsoft Products including Vista, XP, 2000 and any office suite right up to our current 2007 offering.
The author also found that with a little help from the user forums, this program can retrieve the serial numbers or keys from a lot of other applications as well.
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