Get Windows Serial Key
While product keys are going the way of the dinosaur, there are still plenty of programs that use keys. If you want to keep using your legacy software with your new computer, chances are you’ll have to find a few strings of letters and numbers. Here are a few to recover Windows product keys. Try them out. Click Modify. In the Edit String dialog box, replace the 00 entry in the Value Data field with the valid product serial number. Click OK; Right-click the SerialNumberPrefix key in the Name column. Click Modify. Replace the 000 entry with the first three digits that precede the dash in your valid product serial number.
I currently have a licensed copy of AutoCAD LT 2008 on my machine, but in a recent clearout the product CD (with the serial number on it) was thrown out.
What is the best way to recover this serial?
A free offical path is obviously preferred if it exists
JamesHenareJamesHenare1 Answer
Use the ABOUT
command in Autocad to bring up the about window which should show your serial. Alternatively try one of many key finder programs which will pull it from the registry.
Normally it is also baked into the registry as a string value called SerialNumber
under:
Replace variables accordingly.
John T