Recover Office 2000 CD Key? Have product key...

[msdonb]

I am doing a fresh format/reinstall on a Windows 2000 machine. None of the keyfinder programs work to retrieve an office 2000 cd key. Any ideas? I have the product key... is there anyway to convert that into a valid CD-key? Frustrating~!

Thanks.

 

[eyec]

try going to Belarc.com and run their analyzer program. it should show you you key.

 

[strongm]

>Belarc [Advisor] ... should show you you key

Not for Office 2000. Just gives the ProductID, which is not the same thing as the CD key (also known as the DigitalProductID)

Microsoft decided to protect the Office 2000 DigitalProductID by not actually storing it at all. This is why none of the tools can recover it.

(actually, the latest version of WinKeyFinder purports to recover keys for Office 2000 SP2, but I haven't tested it, and I'm not sure how it can do it)

 

[msdonb]

I've tried the WinKeyFinder application on a Windows 2000 SP4 machine, and it does NOT recover the Office 2000 CD Key.