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Stoic Joker:
So a client's machine decided to get flakey and need to be replaced. ...And unfortunately the pricy network management suite we use decided it didn't want to collect the Acrobat X product key for said machine in the software audit logs (like its supposed to...). Which left me with a stack of COA cards and no clue which one went with dead machine X.

*Joy*...

Then I found this little jewel: Product Key Finder. It's a portable 64kb life saver that will pull the product keys out of the registry for damn near anything (Best I can tell) in about a second. Well worth having on a ThumbDrive, and a new favorite on mine.

cranioscopical:
Thanks for the tip!

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Edit:

Good Lord, it's virtually instantaneous!

On W7-64 from an SSD it found all of my Adobe keys, and keys for Microsoft Office and Windows itself. That was before I'd even noted the fact that it was up and running.

There were, however, many more product keys that it didn't find.

Krishean:
I use ProduKey from NirSoft. Looks like it's a little more extensive with options and command line parameters than the one you linked to, but it only works for a few microsoft products. The other one I used to use was The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder. It used to be open source but they seem to have closed the sourceforge site. I still have the last source code and binaries that were available if anyone is interested. There are still closed-source binaries available on the site, but I'm not inclined to trust them.

J-Mac:
Wow! Haven't seen Magic Jellybeab in a long time - didn't know it was still around!

I use SIW and it has a product key finder built in, though it doesn’t find a lot of keys, like most of these products. But it does find the Windows and Office keys along with a handful of others on my box.

Thanks!

Jim

mwb1100:
Magic Jellybean was forked to another Sourceforge project when it went back to closed source:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ekeyfinder/

Some history:

http://ekeyfinder.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=en&page=about


I don't know if anything much is being done with it, but there it is.

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