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by Steve Wiseman on November 15, 2013 · 2 comments

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A while back I wrote an article about a VB script that could pull your serial number / product key.

The problem with that is VB script has an issue with registry redirection on x64 versions of Windows. Under many installs of Windows 7/8/2012 (x64) that script will just get you a bunch of zeros.

Really there is no way around this in VB Script, it always wants to return those redirected keys. I would imagine it is possible to get around this in power shell, but that is for another article.

An even simpler way is to use ProduKey from Nirsoft:

produkey

It pulls product keys from any number of MS products…including the latest versions of Windows (8/2012).

It is free for commercial or personal use.

You can get it here:

ProduKey.exe

Or from the Nirsoft website:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

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1 Jennifer November 16, 2013 at 6:56 pm

Hi Steve. That download shows up as a virus…I assume it is a false positive…right?

2 Steve Wiseman November 16, 2013 at 6:58 pm

Hello Jennifer,

Yes that is a false positive…look here for more details:

http://www.nirsoft.net/false_positive_report.html

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