To proceed, click the Start button, and type CMD into the Search box. The first, and easiest, is to use the Windows Command Prompt and a semi-obscure tool called WMIC, or the Windows Management Instrumentation Command. There are actually multiple ways to query Windows for the original Product Key.
The Geek helps another Microsoft user: Is your Edge running? Better go catch it More Geek goodness: Windows 11 brings new adjustments to learn Since Windows 10 turned out to not be “the last version of Windows” after all, the need to know your Product Key has reared its head once again, and many people are finding that either their computer doesn’t have the holographic sticker containing the key, or time and repeated handling has worn the sticker to the point of unreadability.įortunately, there are ways to coax this handy piece of data from the system itself - if you know how. The necessity for Product Keys all but went away with Windows 10, because there was supposed to be no subsequent new versions of the OS. They are not the same thing, and you cannot register a copy of Windows using the Product ID. One has to wonder then, why vendors commonly affix the holographic sticker containing this code to the case of the equipment in which it’s installed? Be sure you don’t confuse the “Product Key” of which we’re speaking with the “Product ID” that’s shown on screens like the Control Panel>System applet. I suppose that’s understandable to some extent, considering the importance of its role in deciding the legitimacy of any given copy of Windows. This little piece of information is, oddly enough, protected, and hidden deep within the operating system, as if it’s some great secret. That 25-digit alphanumeric prize that marks the difference between a legitimate copy of Windows and one that Microsoft considers pirated. A: Ah, the venerable Windows Product Key.
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