Subj : Re: WinXP Product Key
To   : Corey
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Tue Apr 19 2005 10:13 pm

  Re: Re: WinXP Product Key
  By: Corey to Poindexter Fortran on Tue Apr 19 2005 12:59:00

 > I like the magic jeely bean keyfinder in xp.
 > becuase the key is in hex in win xp in the registry.

I use that, but it requires manual intervention.  If I want to back up the 
WPA.DBL and WPA.BAK files for a bunch of machines, I want a script that I 
run that automatically creates copies called

	XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-WPA.DBL

with the XXXs being the product key.  That way I can know which file is 
for what product key if I have to restore.  I don't want to have to pop 
open a window and read off the key and manually type out a COPY command, 
etc.  I just want to write a .BATch file that uses FINDKEY.EXE (or some 
similarly named utility) that writes to STDOUT so I can redirect the 
output as I see fit for use within my .BATch file.

Alas, I can't find any such program, nor can I discover how the key is 
recovered that I might consider writing one.  :-(


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