re: Cleaning Dell Notebook Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 4:52 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (603 messages posted) Pardon me for mentioning that this command prompt solution happens to be exactly what I posted: > Set DOSpath=%PATH% > PATH=%DOSpath%;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND > FIND "ProductKey" C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT > C:\Product.txt Ed On Monday, May 7, 2007 at 10:53 pm, Carol J wrote: > >Like you said, the number found in System Properties is the Product ID, which is >not the number needed for installing Windows ME (or 98). > >However, that is the correct number for Win95. It's the only OS that applies to. > >I've had these instr. saved for years but didn't make a note of who posted them. >:( > >Quote: >The Product Key can be located from the command prompt (All One line) >Note: Space before and after " " only >type: >C:\Windows\Command\Find /I "ProductKey" C:\Windows\System.dat > >The first line of the screen dump will look like this: > >ProductKey XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX where the X's are your actual CD Key. > >C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\FIND(space)/I(space)"PRODUCTKEY"(space)"C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.DAT". >Also while 'playing' with the command, I found that by adding - ">C:\ID.TXT" (no >quotes) to the end of the command, the output can be saved in the file ID.TXTfor >future reference. > >End quote > > > >color="006699">Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File Written in response to: re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Monday, May 7, 2007 at 10:53 pm) Responses to this message: re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 at 8:43 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Cleaning Dell Notebook (Amanda: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 11:46 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Steve: Thu, Apr 26, 2007, 2:32 pm) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Larry: Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 6:17 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ed: Fri, May 4, 2007, 9:10 pm) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Larry: Mon, May 7, 2007, 10:55 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Mon, May 7, 2007, 10:53 pm) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ed: Tue, May 8, 2007, 4:52 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Tue, May 8, 2007, 8:43 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Larry: Tue, May 8, 2007, 8:55 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Tue, May 8, 2007, 9:06 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ed: Tue, May 8, 2007, 5:34 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Larry: Tue, May 8, 2007, 5:54 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Tue, May 8, 2007, 8:30 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Larry: Tue, May 8, 2007, 8:45 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Tue, May 8, 2007, 8:55 am) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ed: Wed, May 9, 2007, 9:01 pm) re: Cleaning Dell Notebook (Ms. Eagle: Wed, May 9, 2007, 9:29 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum