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Solved How Do I Find My Product Key?

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I have a couple of copies of windows 95. One of them is installed on a machine already. I can’t remember which installation media was used. I want to install the other copy on another machine. How can I find my product key within windows to know which installation media to use?

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      Just open ‘my computer’. Right click on ‘my computer’ and choose ‘properties’. The product ID will show there. For windows 95 the product key and product ID are the same. By the time windows 98 came along MS apparently decided that wasn’t a good idea and separated the two. Now, even using the same key, separate installations produce different IDs.

      There’s also a small utility called ‘diag.exe’ that will extract the key from the registry for both 95 and 98 if you want to go that route. (I tried to find a download for that but the old link is dead and apparently there’s other ‘diag.exe’ files that aren’t for that purpose. I can email it to you if you want it.) It’s only a 23K file and runs from command prompt.

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