Thread: How to Recover product key (CD-Key) of Windows/MS-Office
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Old 06-20-2006, 07:57 PM
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Default Works great but....

The product worked great EXCEPT that my computer is a DELL and it does NOT return the actual product key. So, after installation, when you go online to "Activate" with Microsoft, it says you have an invalid product key.

I have also found 3 other products and they all return the same key (the one that Dell enters into the registry), so I guess I am out of luck?

OK, maybe I am not completely out of luck. Further web surfing has revealed that since it successfully installed, but does not want to activate, it is possible that I only need to call Microsoft and get a new activation ID?



Last edited by leonard; 06-20-2006 at 08:29 PM.. Reason: More info
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