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[Humpty]

To find your or any install serial of any XP cd :

Place the XP install cd in your cd drive and click exit after the options come up.

Right click the XP cd drive and search for "UNATTEND.txt" and peruse the serial number shown within.

Is it the same as your install serial?

[Admiral Ross]

Humpty, on Dec 8 2006, 08:01 AM, said:

To find your or any install serial of any XP cd :

Place the XP install cd in your cd drive and click exit after the options come up.

Right click the XP cd drive and search for "UNATTEND.txt" and peruse the serial number shown within.

Is it the same as your install serial?

Or, you could get lil program called SIW. This program can give you all kinds of info about your computer. It's small and fast.

http://www.gtopala.com/

[Mudd]

Admiral Ross, on Dec 8 2006, 10:30 AM, said:

Or, you could get lil program called SIW. This program can give you all kinds of info about your computer. It's small and fast.

http://www.gtopala.com/

And SIW floats alone. No installation involved.

[Admiral Ross]

Mudd, on Dec 8 2006, 02:26 PM, said:

And SIW floats alone. No installation involved.

What I do is keep it on my server and run it from there.

[Humpty]

Yep, SIW is one of the best for system information.

About finding the product key straight off an XP install cd.

I was thinking more along the lines that a friends pc had crashed and needed to reinstall XP but had lost his product key.

Place the XP install cd in your machine and searching for unattend.txt should find it.

[XPSP2]

Humpty, on Dec 8 2006, 07:10 PM, said:

Yep, SIW is one of the best for system information.

About finding the product key straight off an XP install cd.

I was thinking more along the lines that a friends pc had crashed and needed to reinstall XP but had lost his product key.

Place the XP install cd in your machine and searching for unattend.txt should find it.

Makes it sound easy to steal someones computer. I guess there is no point in hiding my install keys in a seperate safe location. Doing this they don't even need to buy an OS to use my computer.

[Humpty]

Actually I think I may have stuffed up.

I think the unattend.txt that is on every XP install cd might be just a sample and not the real serial.

Oh well,we live and learn.

[Andavari]

On my install CD it's in the i386 folder.

But it's not the same number as the Certificate of Authenticity/Product Key that's listed on the CD packaging and the side of my computer!

[Eldmannen]

In Linux you don't even need any serial.

Don't know how it is with Mac OS X.

[hazelnut]

Or you could use this

http://www.magicalje...keyfinder.shtml

[MajoMo]

Another app. without installation:

ProduKey

Displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer.