You will see posts that say, “no don’t use that registry key ‘DigitalProductID’ change it to ‘DigitalProductID4’ and it will work”. There is another curve ball, that might set you off in the WRONG DIRECTION as well, if you trawl the forums you will find scripts that will ‘tell you’ they decode the registry keys that usually hold the windows key, like this To recover a key from a retail version of Windows is easy, most free key finders will recover keys for you. You will see the similar information if you run the Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool It takes the last five characters of the key and stores them in a file called ‘tokens.dat’, You will find it atĬ:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat This is to stop people just extracting a Volume Licence, once activated, because Windows removes the key. You will all note that further down it gives you the last five characters of the actual key “BHCH3”. You can see that this particular machine is running on a volume licence.
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