{"id":2183,"date":"2013-05-10T03:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2013-05-10T03:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:10:52","slug":"how-to-find-product-key-of-preinstalled-windows-8-7-vista-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-find-product-key-of-preinstalled-windows-8-7-vista-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Product Key of Pre-installed Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I recently purchased a Lenova Ideapad n580 with Windows 8 pre-installed. I was thinking about adding features. However, this requires the product key and I have been unable to locate it. I checked in the Control Panel under Systems but could only find the last 5 digits of the product key. I want all 25 digits for future reference in case something were to happen. How can I find the product key?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lost your Windows product key or the product key sticker is torn or destroyed? How to find the product key on a pre-installed version of Windows? If you have bought a computer with a genuine copy of Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP pre-installed, follow this guide you can find Windows product key easily from your current Windows installation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Find Product Key of Pre-installed Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actually, Windows product key is located in the registry but it is encrypted and not readable. Fortunately, there is a simple product key finder program which can help you decrypt and extract Windows product key in just a few steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download and install <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/product-key-finder.html\">Product Key Finder<\/a> program on your computer which comes with Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP pre-installed.<\/li>\n<li>Start the program and then click on &#8220;Start Recovery&#8221; button, it will display a list of recovery options.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the &#8220;From current system&#8221; option, the program will quickly decrypt the product key which is encoded in Windows registry, and then reveal your Windows product key immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So this is how can you easily find Windows product key from any computer which came pre-installed with Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP. This method also enables you to recover lost product key from a retail copy of Windows operating system.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently purchased a Lenova Ideapad n580 with Windows 8 pre-installed. I was thinking about adding features. However, this requires the product key and I have been unable to locate it. I checked in the Control Panel under Systems but could only find the last 5 digits of the product key. I want all 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,3,39,5,4],"tags":[1035,283,282],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-key","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","category-windows-vista","category-windows-xp","tag-find-windows-product-key","tag-lost-windows-product-key","tag-windows-product-key-finder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}