Dec 25, 2016 To read Windows 7, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 product key from the BIOS or UEFI, simply run OEM Product Key Tool on your PC. Upon running the tool, it will automatically scan your BIOS or EFI and display the product key. After recover the key, we recommend you store the product key in a safe location. Windows 10 Product Key Tool is compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of.
If you lost or forgot where you had stored your Windows product key, I have a solution for you. Today we will see how a simple VBS script can be used to show us the product key of an installed copy of Windows 10, Windows 8 or Windows 7. It is a simple solution to extract your product key from the OS installed on your PC without using any third party software. Here we go.
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Actually, earlier I posted a similar solution which used PowerShell. but many users complained that it fails for them. PowerShell might require additional user skills and extra tweaks to run unsigned cmdlets.
Compared to PowerShell, this VBScript solution is almost perfect. All you need to do is to just click the file. To view your Windows 10 product key
- Open Notepad.
- Copy and paste the following text into the Notepad window
- Save the text above to a file with the '.vbs' extension on the Desktop.
Bonus tip: To make sure that you saving the file correctly with the '.vbs' extension, you can type its name enclosed in double quotes, for example, 'BackupWindowsKey.vbs'. - Now open your BackupWindowsKey.vbs file
- Voila, you product key is displayed on the screen!
Windows Product Key Extractor
I tested this trick on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. It works flawlessly in all mentioned operating systems. Credits: nononsence @ MDL.
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Windows 10 Key Extractor
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