Need to find my product key from within Win 7 but the usual software isn't working

asim18 · 15 May 2016 at 12:53

It's my Win 7 Pro retail licence, need the product key but I've misplaced it not being as careful as I should have been, as I thought It was very easy to extract using Magic Jellybean like I've done in the past, but today it's just showing "BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB-BBBBB".

I've also tried ProduKey and it says "Product key was not found".

I'm guessing my only hope is to find the physical copy but does anyone have any ideas?

Skeeter · 15 May 2016 at 12:54

The NSA have blocked it.

A quick Google suggests a BBBBB product key means you have a Volume License edition installed. Did you buy your W7 from ebay or get it from work or something?

scrivz69 · 15 May 2016 at 12:58

Try speccy mate. https://www.piriform.com/speccy

asim18 · 15 May 2016 at 13:13

Ahhh thanks for that info skeeter. I must have installed the licence I got from Uni at some point. I still have the account though, hopefully I can still access the MSDNAA site.

I will give speccy a go thanks.

Scotty123 · 15 May 2016 at 14:22

There's a vb script floating around you can use without installing anything. It gave me my key correctly.