Jeff:

1. If ME is already installed on the machine (your email said you have
three machines with ME installed on them), then you should be able to use
Doyle's procedure to get the Product ID# from the registry.

2. If not, and you're trying to install from scratch, since, 1) you're
not getting help from either the seller or MS; and, 2) you DO own the CD,
the practical way is to use the Product Key ID# from one of your other
machines. My experience is that they aren't CD-specific. If that doesn't
work, install from one of the ME CD's for which you DO have the PID#.


On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 05:51:09 -0500 Jeff Greene <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> That won't work on a cd-rom, or at least I can't get to. This is not
> installed
> on a machine. All I have is the ME cd with no ID number. Any other
> suggestions?
> Thanks, Jeff @ [log in to unmask]
>
> Doyle Hirsch wrote:
>
> > The product key is in your registry. Click on Start-Run-type in
> > regedit-hit
> > OK.
> > Then click on edit-find and then type in "ProductKey"(without
> quotes}.
> > Click
> > on find next. It shood show up, hilited on the rite panel.
> >
> >               Doyle Hirsch
> >           [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >> From: Jeff Greene <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Windows ME product ID #
> >> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 19:52:24 -0500
> >>
> >> Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to find out
> >> what the product ID number for a windows ME CD when it's
> >> been lost? I bought 3 machines from a company called
> >> Adamant and they didn't send the ID# for the ME os on one
> >> of the machines so I have a machine with ME on it that I
> >> can't finish the set up on of course. Adamant refuses to
> >> rectify the situation as they claim, of course, that they
> >> sent it with the machine, which they did not. I've explored
> >> the CD but I don't really know what I'm looking for. I've
> >> contacted Microsoft with no response as of yet. Thansks.
> >> Jeff

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