re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key
Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 9:14 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lee
(243 messages posted)
Paste this into a Notepad document and save it with the name key.bat Move it to
'stuck' machine and type the word 'key' without quotes. It will grind a while -
let it. Then type in 'Edit' and open the file Akey.reg on drive C. You should see
your product key a little ways under your Product Id number, do not confuse
one for the other as you appearently already have. You need the Product Key - the
Product Id is assigned and you have no where to enter that anyway, Setup requires
the Product Key.
regedit /e AKEY.REG HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
You may have to extract regedit.exe from win98_46.cab file(98se). This all assumes
you still have a valid Windows\System.dat file, no guarantees of that.
On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 4:48 pm, John Thoden wrote:
>I have a computer that I am trying to reinstall Win 98SE. The Product ID key will
>not allow me to pass past the product ID screen. Using a C: prompt in
>DOS how can I find the product ID?
>Any help you can give me will be appreciated!
>John
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