XP and Vista Product Key Recovery

Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by Jason

There are many programs available for extracting the product key from a Windows 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 operating system is corrupt and the computer will not boot into Windows. Fortunately, there are other options. This article explains how you can retrieve the product key 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 Windows on a computer with a corrupt operating system, and the product key has been lost. This method makes it easy to find.

The first step is getting the ntuser.dat file from the computer. In most cases the easiest method is to remove the hard drive, and connect it to a working machine.

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6 Responses to “XP and Vista Product Key Recovery”

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  2. BlimpyBoy on 22 Dec 2007 at 7:39 pm #

    Would be great if it actually worked on Vista,which it doesn’t

  3. Gadget Homepage: XP and Vista Product Key Recovery on 27 Jan 2008 at 9:27 am #

    [...] is getting the ntuser.dat file from the computer. In most cases the easiest method is to remove the hard drive, and connect it to a working [...]

  4. Seller on 02 Jun 2008 at 12:30 pm #

    I want to sell a LEGIT product key for VISTA ULTIMATE. I can receive via PAYPAL. no pirates or hacked keys. No VLK or OEM keys. All are Retail Product Keys. Forget about any cracks or keygen. It is 100% genuine. You can use the key to activate up to 10 computers.
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  5. Veera on 10 Dec 2008 at 12:20 am #

    I have windows XP pack but i lost that product key,
    please tell me how to get that key..If any one have some keys means send me to vb.veera@gmail.com thanks guys….

  6. david on 29 Jan 2009 at 10:27 am #

    i have a windows vista ultimate but now it has stoped working since it was on trial foe 30 days tell me how can i fix this problem i do nor have the vista software

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