Office 2000 CD Key Finder (Not warez)

[Skids1]

Please read before you flame as a warez issue.

Hello all...

Im tolling away on a win98se/office 2000 box that needs to be reloaded... the owner lost her cd-keys and im trying to find a program that will pull the key out of the registry and let it be reinstalled. She has the original CD for Office 2000. Anyone run into this problem before?

Thanks for reading,
Skids1

 

[BillLeeLee]

Unfortunately enough, the major softwares available to do this (Magical Jellybean, Belarc) don't support extracting Office 2000 keys (they support Office 97, Office XP, Office 2003). Apprently no one knows the method by which to pull Office 2000's product key out of the registry, because it is encrypted I believe.

 

[RaisedBlock]

Office 2k encrypts the key, but you can call Microsoft and have them issue you a new key.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823570

 

[Project2501]

Belarc Advisor

 

[mrgstiffler]

I use RockXP to find keys on my machine when I need to...

 

[fibroptikl]

I downloaded RockXP just to try it out - but NOD32 caught it as a virus.

 

[mrgstiffler]

RockXP can also be used to recover passwords and such, so it's not surprising that it's caught as being a virus...

 

[Techx]

Belarc Advisor

2nd'ed belarc rox

 

[Strykar]

RockXP can also be used to recover passwords and such, so it's not surprising that it's caught as being a virus...

Rockxp is flagged as a "potentially dangerous application", it does the same for Magicjellybean, which is another keyfinder.. decrypts NT and Office keys. They are not harmful to your computer in any way, just could be used for harm if in the wrong hands.