I work in an office with about 12 computers and we have a filing cabinet which i keep all the software for all the machines. There are Windows cds and Office cds, I wish to make a storage system in which a particular computers cds are stored together, however I cannot tell which office cd has been used to install on which machine and which windows cd has been installed on which machine! The only way I can distinguish them is by the unique product keys on the disk. Is there any way or any program I can use to find out off a certain machine what software product key has been used on it? A Hope I have made myself clear enough, any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

Aaron

You can go into the registry of each machine and search for ProductID or ProductKey - can't remember which one it is - and it will give the serial number but in some cases the CD key is not the same as the Product ID.

The other way is to enter into Control Panel --> System (for Windows product keys) and into Help --> About (for Office programs).

Hope this helps!

Andrés

I install all software from one set of discs, that way all can be modified without trying to find the same disc that was used org. As long as you have a legit copy/lic for each pc there's no legal problem.

I leave the rest of the CD's in the shrink wrap in a lock box.

Go here:
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.html
Get Magical Jellybean keyfinder.

Free & it works on both Windows and Office
CC Ryder

Go to www.download.com and download freeware that is entitled Belarc. It will give you a print out of the hardware and/or software and the keys on your p.c.

Good luck!

Belarc does NOT give product key.
CC Ryder

belarc doest give cd keys and jellynbeans doesnt give PKEY for office 2000...dang!