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Product Key - License Number ???

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willdwilly

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Mar 18, 2003
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CA
When I run Belarc on a customers box,I get a 20 digit string folowed by ,in brackets Key : a 25 character of letters and numbers. Which is the product key and which is the software licence. Kelly
 
The Product Key, which is what you enter during installation of XP, is a 25 character string.
 
Ok, but why then, does MS tell you to look for the Key which is shown as a 20 digit string as found iu My Computer > properties > registered to :??? Kelly
 
There is not in the native XP GUI, nor in the registry, a plaintext display of the Product Key.

The 20-digit number you are looking at is the Installation ID, a combination of the hardware hash and the Prduct ID. It is a completely different number than the Product Key which is used for activation.

 
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