On Thursday February 01, 2001, Edwin Cohen wrote:

> Is there any way one can recover the Microsoft Product ID
> number (say for Win95) from either the CD or the
> installed program?

To recover the CD key code, run regedit and expand the
branches to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Among the listings on the right is "ProductId", the CD key.

R.

> Ed Cohen

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