Guest PJ Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 I've inherited from the last IT manager a stack of Windows XP Pro packets...large blue and orange folders with CD-Keys printed on the inside (no sticker) and Version 2002 printed at the bottom right. A few have pc names hand-written on them, but the majority don't. Does Microsoft maintain an query-able list of CD-keys that have been activated or some way to find out what machine is tied to which CD- key? THX, --PJ
Guest JS Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Re: Which CD-keys are activated? As long as it's not a exceedingly large number of computers you could try Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html It does a good job of providing a wealth of information including product keys. If you print out the results you will also have a good inventory list (software/hardware/etc) of each computer. JS "PJ" <juels@photodetection.com> wrote in message news:1190660992.840400.82460@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com... > I've inherited from the last IT manager a stack of Windows XP Pro > packets...large blue and orange folders with CD-Keys printed on the > inside (no sticker) and Version 2002 printed at the bottom right. A > few have pc names hand-written on them, but the majority don't. Does > Microsoft maintain an query-able list of CD-keys that have been > activated or some way to find out what machine is tied to which CD- > key? > > THX, > > --PJ >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 24, 2007 Posted September 24, 2007 Re: Which CD-keys are activated? On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:09:52 -0000, PJ <juels@photodetection.com> wrote: > I've inherited from the last IT manager a stack of Windows XP Pro > packets...large blue and orange folders with CD-Keys printed on the > inside (no sticker) and Version 2002 printed at the bottom right. A > few have pc names hand-written on them, but the majority don't. Does > Microsoft maintain an query-able list of CD-keys that have been > activated or some way to find out what machine is tied to which CD- > key? No. You can find the product key on each machine by using any of these: ProduKey http://nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html AIDA32 http://www.aumha.org/freeware.htm Everest http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1 Magical Jellybean http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml Belarc Advisor http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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