There are many backup software on the market and some of them does a really good job in making sure that there is an exact copy of the important files available at the backup drive. Although backing up of files is important, many people forget to backup the Windows product key or third party software license that is installed on their computer. When their computer crashes and had to reinstall everything from scratch, they had to go through the trouble of searching for the license number to activate the software that they’ve purchased. If the license key are misplaced and forgotten, they’d have to contact the software support team and provide them with proof of purchase so that they can reissue the license.
The problem is software licenses aren’t stored in one standard location where you can just copy the whole folder to backup and then paste it back to reactivate all the software. They are stored all over the place either in a form of an external file or a registry key. Fortunately we found 10 software that can scan your computer and recover the lost or forgotten product key licenses so you can back it up in case you need to reactivate them again. Computer technicians can also use these software to help customers recover their software license numbers from non-bootable drive.
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LicenseCrawlerLicenseCrawler is a portable license recovery tool that is free for private use. It scans the registry area on local and remote computers located at the same network for available serial numbers for Windows, Office and third party applications. The amount of software license that LicenseCrawler can detect is unknown because there is no such information being published at their website or program. Since it is free, you can run it and cross check if it is able to reveal the license for the shareware installed on your computer. Works on all versions of Windows including both 32-bit and 64-bit.
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Without a doubt, a key finder program—a special kind of software tool — is the best way to go if you've lost a serial key for one of your software programs, so long as it's still installed or recently was. Product key-finder programs search your computer for the serial keys stored in the Windows Registry or elsewhere on your computer. The software will work with the W10 product key in the PC's BIOS and automatically activate once you are connected to the internet. Then after W10 is installed, you can install the drivers and available software from the PC's support page below.
2. MSKeyViewer Plus
MSKeyViewer Plus is free and portable. Although the name of this tool sounded like it can only view Microsoft key, but it also support Office and third party applications as well. To view the supported applications, run the program, click the About button and followed by clicking the Supported Products button. The list of supported product seems a bit outdated because this program itself was last updated nearly 2 years ago.
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3. Product Key Finder
Product Key Finder is free but take note of the adware installation when installing this program. It is a very simple program that claims to support over 200 programs but without a detailed listings. Running the program will instantly list all the license number and allows you to backup to a CSV file by clicking the Save button. Only support 32-bit Windows operating system.
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4. Softkey Revealer
Softkey Revealer is free and portable program that is able to support retrieving licenses from a huge list of software which can be found on this page. Other than just depending on the signature that they created, it also seems to list keys with the value username, password, user and etc. The program is very small in size at only 200KB in size and even comes with additional tools to decrypt Adobe encrypted key, removing content advisor password and changing the current Windows key.
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5. Keyfinder Thing
Keyfinder Thing is probably one of the most popular free tool to help you recover product keys from your computer. It supports a total of 90 software titles which can be viewed from the View > Software List. You can save the results from the File menu. Take note of the installation of adware during setup.
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6. Magic Keyfinder 2012
Magic Keyfinder 2012 is actually a shareware but the you can use it for free with a huge limitation where only the first 10 digits of the supported product keys are displayed. The actual amount of supported software are unknown. Other than using their database signature, you can also use the deep scan where it detects a certain keywords and determine that it is a possible license key. During testing, only 5 digits from our Windows 7 product keys are being displayed.
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7. Product Key Viewer
Product Key Viewer is a shareware that supports retrieving license key over 1000 applications from your computer. Only the Pro and Tech version will report activation keys for third party applications. The Lite version will only locate the Windows and Office product keys. You can test Product Key Viewer to identify what software is being identified on your computer for free except the data are being partially hidden.
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8. Product Key Finder by Top Password
The name of this software is exactly the same as the one listed under number 3 except this is a shareware that cost $17.95 and developed under a different company called Top Password. The amount of supported software is unknown but the official webpage did mention Windows, Office, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, VMWare, Adobe and many other products. The results are displayed instantly upon scanning. It supports scanning the current system, remote system or even on non-booting systems. Works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.
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9. Product Key Explorer
Product Key Explorer is a shareware that cost $29.50 that supports more than 4000 software and games as well. You can view the complete list of supported products at this page. You can scan both local and remote computers with the built-in option to use a different login credentials. The results can be saved to an external file or a registry file.
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10. Recover Keys
Recover Keys is developed by the same company as KeyFinder Thing except that this is their shareware version that supports over 3000 software titles including games. It cost $24.95 to unlock the program or else it will only show the first 4 characters of the license number. It also comes with advanced features to scan multiple computers through IP range or manually selecting the computers that is available on the network.
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Editor’s Note: After testing the 10 product key recovery software above, the software that stood out in the tests are LicenseCrawler and Recover Keys. Both of this tool managed to retrieve additional licenses that weren’t detected on the other 8. Although some of the software claims to support recovering license keys from more than a few thousands software, it is possible that the software installed on your computer is not in the list. You can definitely make a request by contact them to include it in their database.
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Reply“Editor’s Note: After testing the 10 product key recovery software above, the software that stood out in the tests are LicenseCrawler and Recover Key”
I tried those two programs.
The presentation of the results is 10 times better in ‘Recover Key’, so I purchased that.
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ReplyThe presentation of the results is 10 times better in ‘Recover Key’, so I purchased that.
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Dear sir, I have forgotten my software’s last 5digit Serial number. How could i recover those 5 digit serial right now i have the remaining serial number. Software Name is Vakia from ICS products Salem
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SterJo Key Finder is better and it reveals lots of keys. Also its free unlike some of those mention here.
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This tool is pretty handy if one needed to reformat their PCs incase of things might go wrong. Anyway, good post.. Keep it up! Regards.
ReplyWhile this is a useful utility, it will be interesting to see what Microsoft’s take on it is.
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I’ve got several licenses for Office and Outlook but I’m not sure which one which ones I’ve used and which ones are free.
How can I find out which license I’ve used for which computer and how can I change the key if needed?
While you could simply try one of your Product/License Keys and see if it gets accepted, it’s not a very sophisticated approach.
The proper method to determine or change the Product Key depends on your version of Office or Outlook. However, for either version there is no need to completely reinstall Office.
Note: Office 365 installations don’t require a license key as they activate automatically when you log on to Office with your Microsoft Account. The same applies to Office 2016 and Office 2019 licenses that are linked to your Microsoft Account.
Find license keys for Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016 and Office 2019 via a script
Office 2010 and later include a vbs-script which will reveal the last 5 characters of your Product Key. It’s pretty safe to state that these 5 characters would already be more than enough to find out which Product Key you have used (as you should already have safely stored the full Product Key code somewhere else together with your other license information).
You can run the vbs-file in the following way;
- Open a command prompt. For instance via:
- Start-> type:
cmd
- Start-> type:
- In the command prompt, type the following:
- Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2016/2019 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2013 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2013 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2010 (64-bit) on a 64-bit version of Windows
cscript 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14OSPP.VBS' /dstatus
- Office 2016/2019 (32-bit) on a 32-bit version of Windows
- You should now get a screen with some license details such as the license name, type and the last 5 characters of the Product Key.
Office offers a scripted method to lookup your Product Key.
Changing the Product Key for Office 2010 / 2013 / 2016 / 2019
Changing the Product Key for msi-based installations of Office can be done directly from the Control Panel/Apps & Features or via a command line.
Product Keys for Click-to-Run based installations of Office can only be modified via the command line.
- Windows 10
Start-> Settings-> Apps & Features - Windows 7 and Windows 8
Start-> Control Panel-> Uninstall a Program
Here, locate your Office application and press Modify or Change. Setup will now start with the option “Enter a Product Key” which allows you to enter a different product key.
To change the Product Key via a command line, you can use the same OSPP.VBS script as mentioned before. Instead of using the
/dstatus
switch, you must use the /inpkey:value
switch where you should replace value
for your Product Key.Changing the Product Key for Office XP/2002 / 2003 / 2007
Changing the Product Key for Office 2007 or previous requires you to go into the Registry.
- Browse to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice<version>Registration
- Now is a good point to make a backup of that key;
Right click on the key, choose Export… and save the file to for instance your Desktop. - Expand the Registration key in the Registry and you’ll see one or more sub keys which contain a lot of characters between curly brackets: { and }
Each sub key stands for an installed Office application.
The proper name for this identifier string is called a “GUID”. - Click on the sub key to reveal its contents in the right pane.
TheSuitName
key will reveal the name of the package that you have installed. If you have multiple GUID sub keys listed, you can use this key name to determine for which installation you’ll be changing the Product Key. - In the pane on the right, delete the following keys:
DigitalProductID
ProductID
- Close the Registry and start Outlook (or any other Office application); you’ll now be prompted to fill in your Product Key and activate Office again.
Delete the DigitalProductID and ProductID key to reset your Product Key.
Determine the Product Key with a 3rd party tool
Determining the used Product Key when using Office 2007 or previous isn’t directly supported by Microsoft. However, you can use a little program called Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder to find out your used Product Key. Simply install and run the application to find out the Product Key (note: during the installation, there will be a prompt to also install a sponsored application which you can choose not to install).
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Another free application which you can use is Belarc Advisor. This application does a bit more thorough scan of your computer for which it generates a report that also includes license keys for several of your installed applications. If you are in a large corporate network, you might want to disconnect your network connection as it will also try to build a network map which may cause the application to appear to hang at the “checking the local network of this computer” stage.