How To Recover Windows Key From Your PC Using Keyfinder Thing
So you installed many Microsoft Products like Windows 7, MS Office Suite, etc over a period of time and lost the product key associated with each of those products. You may have lost the software CD/DVD in which you have the product license keys. You can retrieve those serial keys from the current installation. There are many free applications that helps you to recover license keys from Windows.
Keyfinder Thing is one of them which we found does a good job of recovering. It’s a freeware application that doesn’t need installation. It’s completely portable utility, which means you can load it in a Flash drive and use it on any PC instantly. Keyfinder Thing can recover Software Product Keys from many Microsoft Products like, Windows, Microsoft Office XP, 2003 Suite (WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT..), MS Money, Microsoft Works, MS Visual Studio, and many more.
After downloading, extract the content of the zip file to your desktop and run “KeyfinderThing3.exe” file in the folder.
It scans your PC for compatible software and it’s associated license keys.
The application is not updated from a long time, hence it doesn’t support new software. However, since this article is all about recovering Windows OS keys, it does a great job in this point of view.
It works with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Me.
In the programs interface, click on “View”—> “Software List”. You can see all the 90 Software Titles that this free utility supports.
