Microsoft Office 97, 2000, xp and 2003 serial key registry locations ?

Hi,

I think you can know this details in Help > About box itself.

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vadivhere, gecko_au2003 might want this info for doing it from a program rather than for seeing it himself :-)

it will be under this registry key..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\<office version>\Registration\{GUID}\ProductID

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Pratap

pratrap_r is correct, I am using visual basic 6.0 and wanted to know where the key was, my 2nd question is how do I get the office version and the GUID. I can ask this in a seperate question for more points or if it is ok just here. Thanks for all the help !

office version is kinda hardcoded.. for office2003 its 11.0 and so on.. or did you mean the current office version that is installed?

the GUID is actually the guid of the installer msi and that may vary from machine to machine. But you can safely rely on the fact that there is only one key under the Office\<version>\Registration Key

I want some way of programatically retreiving the currently installed version of office so for office 2003 as you said is 11.0 and then I am assuming Office XP and or 2000 would be version 10.0 and so on all the way down to office 97 so that I can determine whether or not to decode the key as well as decoding it so that I can display to the user the office serial keys depending on there version of office. I hope this ellaborates what I am attempting to do ??

yup.... that should do it.

can you show me exactly what version of office has what number related to it, ie :

Office 2003 - 11.0
Office xp - version number
Office 2000 - version number
office 97 - version number

version number being 11.0 or 10.0 or whatever version of office it is related to.

Thanks in advance !