finding my license number

[goldmeier]

Is there any way (through the registry perhaps) to find out what my license number for windows2000 server is?

I have a server with win2k and would like to dig up the license number.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Rafi

[Archer]

I`m pretty sure they`re encrypted on W2K versions but perhaps one of techs here has a solution for you.
Addendum: That is unless you ring MS and speak kindly,they might be enlightened enough to issue you a new number.

[Sly]

I don't know if this will work on a win2k server box, but on a win2k pro box you can do a search for a file named $winnt$.inf, you should find the product ID in this file under (what else) [userdata] productid=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx..

HTH.

[Spaceman Spiff]

[quote]Originally posted by Sly:
<strong>I don't know if this will work on a win2k server box, but on a win2k pro box you can do a search for a file named $winnt$.ini, you should find the product ID in this file under (what else) [userdata] productid=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx..

HTH. </strong><hr></blockquote>

I carefully checked my W2K Pro system and could not find any occurance of the file "$winnt$.ini", or anything like it. Are you sure this is the name of the file? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

[goldmeier]

I, too, could not find a file by said name. I also did a search for *winnt*.ini and nothing came up....

[Poseidon]

This topic has been covered several times. Recently <a href="http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum3/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=29&t=002169" target="_blank">here</a>

Archer is correct. If you contact M$, they should be able to retrieve your license info and if necessary, give a you a cd key.

[Sly]

[quote]Originally posted by Spaceman Spiff:
<strong>

I carefully checked my W2K Pro system and could not find any occurance of the file "$winnt$.ini", or anything like it. Are you sure this is the name of the file? </strong><hr></blockquote>

I've found that if your folder options are not set to view all files (hidden and file ext), searching for it will not yield any results. Try a search with "$winnt$*" it should find the file in The Winnt\system32 dir..

Also my install was from an OEM disk.


I don't know if this makes a deference but I run a triple-boot system on my main box, and a dual-boot on the other 2 boxes, Win98se, Win2k pro, and WinXP pro...

[Sly]

I must post an apology the file Name is $winnt$.inf and not $winnt$.ini sorry for the confusion.. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">