If you want to setup your computer system again you need to have the licenses and serial numbers at hand for all the software programs that you have purchased and registered. This does include the Windows product key but also other serial numbers for applications like Nero, Office, VMWare and pretty much every other application.
Instead of searching for the keys in your emails, manuals and recipes you could use another approach. License Crawler is a sweet little application that scans the Windows Registry for Windows product keys and other serial numbers and licenses.
The License Crawler can discover application product keys and other serial numbers or licenses very quickly and supports all versions of Windows operating system from Windows 95 to Windows Vista.
It is a portable application that can be run from any location and would be a perfect fit for an USB stick. Asking clients to find serial and license keys is often very frustrating. Instead, tech support can simply run License Crawler without having to interact with the client at all.
You need admin rights to use this program.
If you have any computer related problem, you can ask it at our Question & Answer portal and our experts will answer your queries.
This is a great tool for those that lost the paper with their cdkey on it.
If you need to find your missing 25-character Windows Key, you can also check out this post for some helpful tips on retrieving it: http://filetonic.com/blog/2009/07/20/lost-windows-product-key/
Nice artile here, we use JellyBean when we need to find CD LIc keys but this is a nice additional way to find them.