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Where microsoft office 2000 product key will be stored

Zone: General Office Suite Software

Tags: key, office, 2000, microsoft, product

Hi,

I have installed MS office 2000 in my machine.Now i want to find out where my office product key will be stored.Some guy's told me that this key will be stored in encrypted format.

Can you please help me to get this answer?.

Thanks in advance
Sri

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Question Asked By: gsridhar78

Solution Provided By: Stevejones123

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12.03.2003 at 08:10AM PST, ID: 9867550

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sunray_2003:

USe this

http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

SUnray

12.03.2003 at 08:11AM PST, ID: 9867559

Rank: Master

sunray_2003:

Or open word or excel
go to help and click on "About microsoft word" and you can view the product key

Sunray

12.03.2003 at 08:12AM PST, ID: 9867570

Rank: Master

sunray_2003:

You might possibly find going to this location in registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Registration

Click the + sign in this folder ..and look for ProductID registry key

Sunray

12.03.2003 at 08:15AM PST, ID: 9867597

Rank: Sage

byundt:

Hi gsridhar78,
MagicalJellyBean doesn't work on Office 2000, but does on Office 97 and Office XP--go figure!
The ProductID displayed in the Help...About Word menu item is different from the product key. The ProductID is calculated from the product key, together with a bunch of other information (probably including the date & time)--and will be different each time you do a clean reinstall of the software (such as on a freshly reformatted hard drive in the same computer).
Cheers!

Brad

12.03.2003 at 08:18AM PST, ID: 9867618

Rank: Sage

byundt:

gsridhar78,
The registry stores the ProductID (once again, not the product key) on Office 2000 and Office XP.
Brad

12.03.2003 at 08:34AM PST, ID: 9867734

gsridhar78:

Hi guys,

Thanks for quick replay

I want the product key.This key is when ever i try to install office 2000 this time we will enter one product key in english letters.

But the product ID i can find out .

I want to find the product key where i can enter at the time of installation.If you enter product ID at the installation time it will not accept.

12.03.2003 at 08:48AM PST, ID: 9867831

Rank: Master

sunray_2003:

MS says about this

How to Obtain a New Product Key for Office Program Setup
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823570

Sunray

12.11.2003 at 08:29AM PST, ID: 9921178

Stevejones123:

The Product key is encrypted.
I find mine written in black marker pen on the CD :)
For Office 97 it was in the help menu of Word or Excel.
For XP they don't need to encrypt it because of product activation.
But for 2000 they went the way of encryption.

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12.11.2003 at 02:47PM PST, ID: 9924240

Rank: Sage

byundt:

On my copy of Excel 97, the Product ID is listed in the Help...About Excel menu item. This is different from the CD Key.

However, after comparing the two numbers, I find a pretty simple transposition will generate the CD Key from the Product ID. I'd post the technique, but I suspect Experts-Exchange policy would not permit it.

12.11.2003 at 03:34PM PST, ID: 9924576

Stevejones123:

The 97 key is the one given in help. Anyway for Office 97 any combination of numbers divisible by seven will do.It's only with Office 2000 that MS began to take things a little more seriously.

02.14.2004 at 01:01AM PST, ID: 10359613

Rank: Wizard

Dreamboat:

byundt: I would love to know about your method of finding the CD Key. EE has changed their idea of "hacking" a little bit. Basically, if you can find it on some other *legit* website, then we should be okay offering it here. Please email me if you'd like my opinion, otherwise, would you send to Computer101@experts-exchange.com? Tell him I sent you, and ask what he thinks about it. Thanks!

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02.16.2004 at 06:49AM PST, ID: 10372280

Rank: Sage

byundt:

Dreamboat,
On my computer, my CD key and product ID have the values (n, x and y are digit placeholders):
nnn0-nnnnnnn CD-key
xxxxx-nnn-nnnnnnn-0yyyy Product ID

The transposition between CD-key and Product ID was to move the 0 from position 4 in CD-key to position 16 in the Product ID. In addition to this, additional digits were inserted at the beginning and end of the Product ID. The last four of these additional digits vary from one install to a reinstallation on the same computer; the first five added digits appear to be constant.

Is it the same with your installation of Office 97?
Brad

02.16.2004 at 06:56AM PST, ID: 10372341

Rank: Wizard

Dreamboat:

Sorry, Brad. I don't know without finding me 97 CDs, LOL!
I can tell you that it's NOT the same for 2000. My Product ID is all numbers. My CD key is alphanumeric.
Am I understanding your point?

02.16.2004 at 07:13AM PST, ID: 10372533

Rank: Sage

byundt:

Dreamboat,
My comment was specific to Office 97, for which my CD-key and Product-ID are both all numbers.
Brad

02.18.2004 at 01:18AM PST, ID: 10390573

PashaMod:

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10.04.2004 at 08:30AM PDT, ID: 12218218

BrianKronberg:

Go to www.belarc.com and download their free audit tool. Install it, run it, and you will get an inventory report of your PC that includes CD Keys for Office, Windows, etc.

12.10.2004 at 03:11AM PST, ID: 12791162

shaun_hester:

That audit tool didn't work, so far there seems to be no way to retrieve the PRODUCT KEY for office 2000.

12.10.2004 at 04:10AM PST, ID: 12791470

Rank: Sage

byundt:

That's correct--the tools don't work for Office 2000. Belarc Advisor & Magical Jelly Bean can retrieve the product key for Office 97, XP and XP Pro -- but not for Office 2000. For Office 2000, your choice is either to find the original CD case or to pay Microsoft to tell you the product key. They'll need your product ID (which you can get in the Help...About Excel (or other Office application) menu item, plus a receipt. The phone number to call Microsoft will vary with country.

How to replace lost, broken, or missing Microsoft software or hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;326246

**Replacement of CD or Product Keys
To replace a CD or Product Key, you must contact PSS. To locate the appropriate phone number for your product, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx?rdpath=gp;en-us;cntactms

05.31.2005 at 10:34AM PDT, ID: 14115228

sudharsan-kaliyur:

Hi,
Click on help menu on microsoft word and click "About". The about dialog box contains product id

06.25.2005 at 12:24PM PDT, ID: 14301412

DanCh99:

sudharsan. try reading the comments before posting. They're there for a reason.

09.26.2005 at 08:40PM PDT, ID: 14964166

Atriou:

Byundt seems to have it close to right, but not quite. His pattern bellow is correct, with one exception

nnn*-nnnnnnn CD-key
xxxxx-nnn-nnnnnnn-*yyyy Product ID

The '*' is in fact a wildcard, and not in the position he showed in the Product ID. It must have been a co-incidence for him that it came up as the same number. However, it will be one of ten digits, at most, so the user can simply try 0 through 9 until she finds the right one and the key is accepted.

In other words, all the digits of the CD-Key for Office 97 are stored in the Product ID with the exception of the 4th character, which is a wildcard between 0-9, based on something that is not identified in either.

10.18.2005 at 05:25AM PDT, ID: 15106623

zabumba:

As far as I know, none of the products designed to read license numbers/product keys from installed software can read the Office 2000 product key. Products like AIDA32, RockXP, Magical Jellybean Keyfinder, etc, can read keys from earlier and later versions of Office, but not Office 2000.

I found a way to find the product key, at least in some cases and as long as a certain temporary file hasn't been deleted (which unfortunately it will probably have been, in many cases, if the installation is a few months old already). That file is, as far as I could assess so far, created during the installation of SR1a for Office 2000. I don't have the name of the file here right now, but its name included the string MsiExec. I believe the name was something like *Office 2000*MsiExec*(000*)*, and the extension was either .log or .txt. Inside that file I found two different lines which include the value assignment PIDKEY=..., and there you'll find the product key that was used to install Office, in plain text. In my case the file was, I believe, under \Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temp. But if you have the time, to be sure you can just do a search on all your local fixed disks for *msiexec*.*, containing the string "pidkey".

After discovering this, I still haven't found any pages on the web that describe this procedure.

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