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XP and Vista Product Key Recovery

December 22, 2007 by Jason

There are many programs available for extracting the product key from a XP or Vista installation. The only problem is that they generally require the computer to be functional to run. These programs are useless if the is corrupt and the computer will not boot into Windows. Fortunately, there are other options. This article explains how you can retrieve the product with just the ntuser.dat file from the machine. You can also download a stand-alone version of my decrypter tool.

While this may not sound very useful to the average user, if you work with computers on a daily basis you have most likely ran into this problem: You have to perform a fresh installation of on a computer with a corrupt operating system, and the product has been lost. This method makes it easy to find. Read More»