Photo Organiser + Windows Key Recovery?

[Deleted User 298457]

Hi guys,

Two parter for you:

Photos
I'm pretty OCD on organising my photos. This meant I used to create a "book end" photo every once in a while, and copy anything from that onto my PC and manually sort. Somewhere along the way I have probably ended up with duplicate photos/folders etc.

Is there a nice app to sort out de-dupe and organise? Is Picaso still the go-to?

Windows Key Recovery
I recently acquired an old Dell OptiPlex. It has Win10 Home installed, with a COA specific to Refurb PCs attached. However, it also has a Win8 PRO sticker. Is there a way to extract the Win8 PRO key?

 

[demonix]

Windows Key Recovery
I recently acquired an old Dell OptiPlex. It has Win10 Home installed, with a COA specific to Refurb PCs attached. However, it also has a Win8 PRO sticker. Is there a way to extract the Win8 PRO key?

The license will be embedded into the BIOS, so as long as the company that refurbished the system didn't do anything to the BIOS you don't need to do much apart from installing the version of windows 10 the corresponds to the embedded license key, hope when it's connected to the internet it's picked up and activates and then type the following into powershell (admin).

wmic path SolftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

It'll be better then relying on those questionable key finders that pop up in the google results when you search for how to recover an embedded license key.

 

[Semple]

I'll see if i can dig out the duplicate photo finder i used in the past, from what i recall it was pretty good at picking out duplicates, it wasn't just a case of hashing the file and comparing. That way it could even find very similar photos that were snapped in short succession where you probably only needed the one.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

The license will be embedded into the BIOS, so as long as the company that refurbished the system didn't do anything to the BIOS you don't need to do much apart from installing the version of windows 10 the corresponds to the embedded license key, hope when it's connected to the internet it's picked up and activates and then type the following into powershell (admin).

wmic path SolftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

It'll be better then relying on those questionable key finders that pop up in the google results when you search for how to recover an embedded license key.

Ah snap. The 'server' is now remote so that is trickier said than done. Thanks though.

I'll see if i can dig out the duplicate photo finder i used in the past, from what i recall it was pretty good at picking out duplicates, it wasn't just a case of hashing the file and comparing. That way it could even find very similar photos that were snapped in short succession where you probably only needed the one.

Brill thank you. I have a habit of slamming the "snap" button so certainly a decent percentage will be near-dupes.

 

[Deleted User 298457]

The license will be embedded into the BIOS, so as long as the company that refurbished the system didn't do anything to the BIOS you don't need to do much apart from installing the version of windows 10 the corresponds to the embedded license key, hope when it's connected to the internet it's picked up and activates and then type the following into powershell (admin).

wmic path SolftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

It'll be better then relying on those questionable key finders that pop up in the google results when you search for how to recover an embedded license key.

In case it helps anyone else, I did run the command:
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

It gave a different key to the one being used; result. I assumed this was the Win8 Pro key.

I then updated the key in Control Panel but because it was a Win8 key, it didn't offer me an upgrade path immediately. So instead I used the generic licensing key (published on Microsofts website):
VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T

This then prompted Windows to upgrade to Win10 Pro. When it rebooted, it then Activated using the key within the BIOS.

I did try the SmartKeyPro app from the Windows store as I wasn't sure if the key I had was indeed for Pro; and there is no other way I can find to discover that information.