[dba-Tech] Office Key

Can't boot from the drive - that was the original problem - Dell said the
drive was fried but I think either the boot track went south or the OS got
hosed and could have been reloaded after a reformat.  But they swapped it
out.  They want it back of course so they can return it to the vendor and
get credit.  But I fought with them to let me have it until Max gets home or
break so he can see if there's anything else on there that I missed that he
needs.

R
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 2:10 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Office Key

It is stored in the Registry, but I have no idea how to get it - it is
buried somewhere in there in an encrypted format.

If you can boot the drive, Magic Jelly Bean Keyfinder will find that and
other MS product keys for you.  http://www.magicaljellybean.com/

Since it is a Sourcedforge, project, you may be able to work out how to get
the infor from an off-line registry by looking at the source code.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/keyfinder/files/

--
Stuart


On 25 Oct 2009 at 8:53, Rocky Smolin wrote:

> Dear List(s):
> 
> My son Max's HD in his Dell LT crapped out about a month ago. Dell
replaced
> the drive.  Of course, he had no backups.  I told him to send the drive to
> me to see if I could recover some of the irreplaceable files.  Which I was
> able to do.
> 
> When I bought him this system I also got him Office 2007.  OF course, he
> can't find the original install disk, but he got a copy from someone which
> is working but in a few days it's going to stop working because it's not
> registered. 
> 
> So my question is - is the key stored in the registry somewhere?  If so,
and
> I could find it on the old HD, I could email it to him, he could register
> the copy he's using.
> 
> MTIA,
> 
>  
> 
> Rocky Smolin
> 
> Beach Access Software
> 
> 858-259-4334
> 
> www.e-z-mrp.com <http://www.e-z-mrp.com/> 
> 
> www.bchacc.com <http://www.bchacc.com/> 
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 


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