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Looking for Product Key in Registry
Name: eddie Date: March 14, 2001 at 03:03:33 Pacific
Comment:
Hiya
I am at work at the moment and we have a laptop which we need to identify. I know that in Win98, you can go to REGEDIT and Find ProductKey. Is there a way to do this for Win3.1?
Name: dude Date: March 14, 2001 at 06:39:38 Pacific
Reply:
hello eddie Windows 3.1 did not require entering a keycode, product code or otherwise. It also did not have a registry, the files *.sys, *.ini, *.bat did this function instead. The first microsoft operating system that came with a product code and certificate of authenticity was windows for workgroups 3.11, and the first microsoft operating system that required entering a keycode and a registry was windows 95. Your copy of windows 3.1 is legitimate if you can verify that the installation disks are genuine microsoft. hope this helps
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Response Number 4
Name: pip Date: March 14, 2001 at 14:58:41 Pacific
Reply:
Windows 3.1 did come with a certificate of authentisty.
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Response Number 5
Name: eddie Date: March 15, 2001 at 05:19:05 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Dude. Yes, they are true disks so at least we know why I couldn't find the ID in the registry.
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