re: Win2000 hides product key where?
Friday, April 12, 2002 at 8:48 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mistdamillion
(1 messages posted)
Whata beauty, this works a treat, now i can get on with my day, cheers
On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 5:43 pm, Daniel wrote:
>You may be able to find the information in
>C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\$WINNT$.INF which is the
>setup information file. I reinstalled Windows successfully using the number I found
>there,
>but the number was missing on the next visit to that
>file. Luckily I have written it down for future reference.
>This still doesn't answer where Windows hides the key..
>Maybe by using the microsoft deployment tool, you
>could eliminate the personalization in the registry and
>be able to replace the key with another one.
>
>I strongly suspect that the product number is a one-way hash of the product key.
>If the hash of the key you enter does not match the stored product number, then
you're
>out of luck. Microsoft would likely do things this way so you could not recover
the
>key later. It's almost as painful as Windows Product Activation!
>
>Daniel
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