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I have a friend who needs to reinstall windows, but he can't find his VS2008 activation code/product key. Is there a way to look up which product key he entered when he last installed VS2008 in the registry? Any other method of finding the key is also welcome.
Mihai Limbășanclosed as off topic by Chris Laplante, Bryan Crosby, dSquared, Kyle Macey, Justin BooOct 11 '12 at 19:46
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4 Answers
For 32 bit Windows:
Visual Studio 2003:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio7.0RegistrationPIDKEY
Visual Studio 2005:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0RegistrationPIDKEY
Visual Studio 2008:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0RegistrationPIDKEY
For 64 bit Windows:
Visual Studio 2003:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftVisualStudio7.0RegistrationPIDKEY
Visual Studio 2005:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0RegistrationPIDKEY
Visual Studio 2008:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0RegistrationPIDKEY
Notes:
- Data is a GUID without dashes. Put a dash ( – ) after every 5 characters to convert to product key.
If PIDKEY value is empty try to look at the subfolders e.g.
...Registration1000.0x0000PIDKEY
or
...Registration2000.0x0000PIDKEY
I found the product key for Visual Studio 2008 Professional under a slightly different key:
it was listed without the dashes as stated above.
user66001For Visual Studio 2005:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Enu Product Family Maps
If you do have an installed Visual Studio 2005 however, and want to find out the serial number you’ve used to install it because you don’t have a clue where you put that shiny sticker, you can. It is, like most things in Windows, in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0RegistrationPIDKEY
In order to convert the value in that key to an actual serial number you have to put a dash ( – ) after evert 5 characters of the code.
From: http://www.gooli.org/blog/visual-studio-2005-serial-number/
For Visual Studio 2008 it's supposed to be:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio9.0RegistrationPIDKEY
However I noted that the the Data field for PIDKEY is only filled in the 1000.0x000 (or 2000.0x000) sub folder of the above paths.