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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: Program to list possible Windows keys based on partial information

« on: April 04, 2014, 01:25 PM »

Yes, skwire, I understand that this COULD be taken as a keygen, and I completely understand your trepidation. I can assure you that, in my case, it is not. I work at a computer shop, and a customer brought us a laptop that had obviously been well used and the key sticker on the bottom is pretty worn. There was no way to fix the laptop, except by re-formatting, and now I am left in a not so good situation.

I can clearly read some of the characters and others are not so legible, but I can guess at them (there are probably 5-7 out of the 25 characters that are less than readable).

It is my plan that I will have to take a chunk out of my days and try the possible combinations (which I understand could be quite numerous) to see if I can help this customer out.

I started to write a list out of the possible combinations, but that got very cumbersome very quickly.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: Program to list possible Windows keys based on partial information

« on: April 04, 2014, 11:16 AM »

Just a little note regarding how I see this program working........
For each character, there might be the ability to enter several different guesses for that position, for example:

xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
Q 3 B                B     
G    8                8
      3

Does this make sense?

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: Program to list possible Windows keys based on partial information

« on: April 04, 2014, 10:12 AM »

I have a degree in computer programming, but it has been SO LONG since I have done any programming. I plan on trying my hand at this, but I know that you guys can do it a lot quicker than I can, and a lot better:)

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: IDEA: Program to list possible Windows keys based on partial information

« on: April 04, 2014, 09:59 AM »

Yes, it is the OS registration key on the bottom of the laptop that is faded.

Thank you so much for your quick attention to my request

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Coding Snack Guidelines / IDEA: Program to list possible Windows keys based on partial information

« on: April 04, 2014, 09:18 AM »

Hello,
I have a situation where I have a laptop that has a Windows key (25 character key - 5 groups of 5 characters) that is partially worn away. Some of the characters are very readable, while others are not. For the ones that are not readable, I can take a guess as to what they are.

What I would like is a program where I can enter a base Windows key and all of my guesses for each character. The program would then generate all of the possible key combinations from that information so that I can check them off as I try activating Windows with them. I guess the most ideal version of this program could try each of the combinations by brute force, but that may or may not be do-able.

I reformatted the laptop and now I cannot enter the key because I cannot read all of the characters.

Could anybody help with something like this?

Thanks,

Jim

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LaunchBar Commander / Feature Request

« on: January 31, 2014, 06:22 PM »

Thank you so much for such a great program. I love DonationCoder

My request is for the ability to be able to move menu items 'left and right' within the tree such that when you move an item left, you make it move up in the hierarchy (e.g if the item you want to move was a child of the item above it, it becomes a sibling to the item above it.) Moving right would make the moved item a child.

Does that make sense?

Thank you!
Jim