How to find Microsoft Access product key

gaz_jones

I have a cupboard with 10 copies of Microsoft Access' in. A user has asked me to reinstall their version. The only problem is the previous IT guy has left no record of which licence is installed on which computer. Is there any software I can download that will tell me what the product key of the software installed on that pc is? I've had a google but a lot of the software I've downloaded isn't working. Normally I use 'Magical Jelly Bean' but that isn't showing up the product key for Access. Only the OS.

It is Access 2000 by the way.



Many thanks everyone.

geewhiz

Open up regedit and browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

OR

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData

There will be several GUID's in here but if you go through them you might find the one relating to Access and it may have a ProductID key if you're lucky !

As a last resort just do a search on ProductID and check the path for everything it finds to see if it's access !

Donnie

Belarc Advisor?

isofa

or Magical Jelly Bean KeyFinder

Sobraon

LicenseCrawler here successfully recovers my Office 2003 Product key / ID

gaz_jones

isofa wrote: »

or Magical Jelly Bean KeyFinder

This is the one I normally use but for some reason it is only bringing up the OS product key.

John_Gray

I usually use ProduKey. But I had an example today (Office 2000) where neither that nor Belarc Advisor could pull up the key... (to be fair, the ProduKey heading says 'Office 2003/2007!)

I don't think you will be able to extract the key for Office 2000 components, since I vaguely remember from somewhere that it doesn't get stored...