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re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Friday, December 19, 2003 at 4:56 pm Posted by trey (1964 messages posted) Product Key Finder 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Friday, December 19, 2003 at 5:05 pm Posted by trey (1964 messages posted) Sorry, i didn't read your post,rather scanned it. I don't have a solution for your dos problem. Please disregard my reply, trey. On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 4:56 pm, trey wrote: >Product Key Finder > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Friday, December 19, 2003 at 5:26 pm Posted by stacy (1 messages posted) On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 5:29 pm installed windows on system that was recovered as if brand new.have a key code but unshure about if it will say valid? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Friday, December 19, 2003 at 11:54 pm Posted by Dansden (685 messages posted) What? who's on first?? On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 5:26 pm, stacy wrote: > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 4:13 am Posted by Pappy (959 messages posted) Who's on first. What's on second. Where's on third. When's at shortstop. Why's pitching or something like that. On Friday, December 19, 2003 at 11:54 pm, Dan wrote: >What? who's on first?? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 9:14 am 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Installing Windows 98 SE missing Key Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 9:23 am Posted by Lee (243 messages posted) That needs to be a one line batch file with just a single space where the line 'wraps'. On Saturday, December 20, 2003 at 9:14 am, Lee wrote: >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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum