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Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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Nov 18th, 2008
I have lost my product key. I am using a windows 98 PC, and it has office 2000 pro installed. I have tried several programs to recover my serial key #, but some just give me the Productl ID #, some don't give me anything.

Is there a good program that recovers Office 2000, Serial Key # or Installation Key # from a windows 98 machine?


I would appreciate any help.

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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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try the program Magic Jellybean
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try the program Magic Jellybean


I have tried majic jelly bean, but that does not reveal the office 2000 Serial Key#.

I also tried keyfinder.
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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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Nov 19th, 2008
Did some googling and it appears you cant recover the key for versions less than office XP
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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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Did some googling and it appears you cant recover the key for versions less than office XP


Correct, I did some googling too, for 2 days, but nothing, but I was wondering if someone in here might have a hack or something to get the key. I guess this is something that no one is interested in hacking, nor figuring out. I guess, I will have to buy new key.
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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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The key itself isnt stored. Prior to office XP there was no activation so any key which was valid would work. It was only checked to see if it was valid at install time.
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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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Nov 21st, 2008
try this program i use it all the time ,but not sure if it still runs on win 98.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
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try this program i use it all the time ,but not sure if it still runs on win 98.
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html


It works with win98, but still does not give the serial number for office. I guess will just leave it alone.

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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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It works with win98, but still does not give the serial number for office. I guess will just leave it alone.

Thanks everyone.

then it didn't work ,it should give the key in software licenses near the bottom
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Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98

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Nov 26th, 2008
like i said, its not possible

office versions prior to 2002(xp) did not store the key as there was no need to (no product activation), they merely checked if it *seemed* to be a valid key at install time
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