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.
thanks,
Last edited by johnny80; Nov 18th, 2008 at 7:55 pm.
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.
Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98
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.
Re: Recover Office 2000 Product Key from within win98
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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