What Is My Computer's Serial Key

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If you are looking for your CD-KEY, make sure to check the CD sleeve, CD jewel case, and any printed documentation included with the CD. Windows 10 upgrade users If you have installed the free Windows 10 upgrade, the unique key is associated with your Microsoft account and can be re-activated after re-installing Windows 10. May be, you want to uninstall the product key and use it on a different computer, or may be, you want to backup the product key before making substantial changes your PC’s hardware. There are plenty of software out there to view or retrieve your Windows product key. Which product key are you looking for which product, Windows or Office? Where to find your product key. You can find your Windows product key on a label included with the package that came with your copy of Windows. The label might also be on your computer case. Activation pairs your product key with your computer. What is my Windows serial number / product key? To find your actual serial number or product key, you can either refer to the physical box, or find it on your computer itself. Follow these steps to get your product ID for your PC: Windows 7 and Vista store your product ID inside the Control Panel, under the system information screen. Another rampant source of data loss is when a partition is mistakenly deleted or a computer’s file system is corrupted by virus attack. Enter the serial key.

How do I get the Product and Serial Number of ASUS EeePC netbook on Windows (XP preferably)?

Edit: I am not a label reader and I am interested to retrieve the two numbers by software or tool.

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I can see two ways to do this:

  1. Type 'msinfo32' on your 'Run'(Windows Button+R). Search for 'System Model' or 'System Serial'. Certainly you will find the information that you need here.

  2. SIW(System Information for Windows):

SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that analyzes your computer and gathers detailed information about system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.

Or even a 3th option:

  1. If you until don't find what you are looking for, you would try looking over windows registry(Windows Key+R / 'regedit'), go to HKLMHARDWAREDESCRIPTIONSYSTEM. There is a lot of information about your system an about your BIOS here.
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What Is My Computers Serial Key Replacement

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You can also do this from the command line by typing wmic bios get serialnumber

This will give you the laptop or desktop computer serial number.

wmic csproduct get name will give you the computer model.

I can confirm these both still work in Windows 7.

Documented here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/558124

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What Is My Computers Serial Key Free

Look here.

From the site:

Overturn your EeePC. There will be a sticker with with the Serial Number (SN:). That is your serial number. But if like mine, with time, the Serial Number on my EeePC has disappeared, then what ?!

Instead of my Serial Number, the sticker has become blank ! Shame on you Asus for using disappearing ink for the serial number.

If you still have your EeePC package box, then the Serial Number (SN:) is printed on the box. If you don't have the EeePC packing box then you can check the Invoice of your EeePC. The EeePC serial number will be mentioned in your Invoice.

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There is one last way you can find out your Computers manufacturing serial number.

This will only work if you have your original battery. Remove your battery. Under the battery you will find a sticker (hopefully as it is hidden inside, the number would not have disappeared with wear and tear).

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If for some reason the sticker is not there, you can use software tools to recover the product key and get the model of your system. Belarc Advisor is one such tool.

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Unlike Windows 7 PCs, computers pre-installed with an edition of Windows 8 and Windows 10 don’t have a Certificate of Authenticity (CoA) sticker with their original product key printed on it. This is because, the product key is embedded in the PC’s UEFI firmware and can’t be seen just by accessing the UEFI.

While using a Windows 10 PC, you don’t need to view or backup your Windows 10 product key as we can clean install or reinstall the same edition of Windows 10 on the same PC and activate the copy of Windows 10 without having to enter the product key.

That said, there might be instances where you want to view your Windows 10 product key. May be, you want to uninstall the product key and use it on a different computer, or may be, you want to backup the product key before making substantial changes your PC’s hardware.

There are plenty of software out there to view or retrieve your Windows product key. While not all of them work great on Windows 10 and some of them out there even show a different key than the actual product key, here are three methods to view or retrieve your Windows 10 product key for free.

In the first method, we are going to use the reliable NirSoft ProduKey to view the product key. In the second method, we will use the popular Belarc Advisor software (free version) to view the product key. And a VBS script will be used in the third method to view Windows 10 key.

Method 1

Use ProduKey to View or recover Windows 10 product key

Step 1: Visit this page, scroll down to see download links, and click on the latest version of ProduKey link to download the zip file containing ProduKey. Extract the zip file to a new folder to get ProduKey.exe file.

Step 2: Run ProduKey.exe file to view your Windows 10 product key.

Method 2

View Windows 10 product key using Belarc Advisor

Step 1: Download Belarc Advisor (free) from this page and then run the installer to get it installed on your Windows 10 PC.

Step 2: Launch Belarc Advisor with administrative rights. Upon launching, the tool will automatically begin analysing your computer.

Step 3: Once the report is ready, it will be opened in your default web browser.

Step 4: On the left-side of the report (see above picture), under in page links, click Software licenses link to view your Windows 10 product key as well as product keys of other installed software.

Method 3

View Windows 10 product key using a simple script

Step 1: Click here to download Win10Key.zip file. Extract the zip file to get Win10Key.vbs file.

Step 2: Double-click on Win10Key.vbs file to view your product key.

Warning: This method is not very accurate, meaning the script might show a wrong product at times. So, we recommend you use ProduKey or Belarc Advisor over this script.

Have you backed up your Windows 10 product key?