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If forgot or lost Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 product key, how could we find it?

How to Change Windows 8 Product Key? Move the mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen, click the Search icon. Type in cmd in the search box, then right-click on the “Command Prompt” icon on the top-left of the search result page. A tick sign appears on the icon. There is actually a much easier way of doing the activation in Windows 8, thanks to W7H reader Daniel for pointing it out in the comment. Just open a Command Prompt (Admin) window, and fire up the following command: slui 3. And this window pops up, now you can put in your Windows 8 product key and go active it.

It is known that Windows 8 is different from previous Windows operational system. There is no sticker available on computer listing product license key. In Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 computer, product keys are saved in the registry and evaluated each time you load a Windows update.

So now see three options on how to find Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 product key from BIOS and registry?

Option 1: Find Windows 8 product key in registry

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From the above introduction, we know Windows product key is saved in registry, so we open registry now to view Windows product key.

1. Press Win + R to get Run box appear.

2. Enter Regedit into the text box displayed and press OK button. Windows registry editor opens.

3. Navigate to the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion' key in the registry. This holds several Windows settings for your machine.

4. Right-click the ProductId key and select Modify. View the number displayed. This is your product key for Windows. Press the 'Cancel' button to avoid making changes to the value.

Option 2: Find Windows 8 new product key from Microsoft

If the above couldn't help you, we need to ask for Windows 8 replacement product key from Microsoft. But at first you have to make sure Windows 8 version you are using. Is it Windows OEM version? If it is, you have to call the support department of your PC vendor first.

If your vendor cannot solve your problem, then you should go to Microsoft support and ask them for Windows 8 replacement product key.

Now activate Windows 8 new product key in command prompt:

1. Open the command prompt as administrator (when opened as admin the prompt will be at 'c:windowssystem32').

2. Uninstall the present Product Key (if any) by typing this 'slmgr /upk'.
A message should pop up notifying it done.

3. Now install the new Product Key by typing this command 'slmgr /ipk XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX'. This command will replace the X's with the Windows 8/8.1 key.

A message should pop up to notify you later that new product key has been installed. You can verify it by refreshing and checking the systems properties page. Hope your problem has been solved.

Option 3: Find Windows 8 product key with third-party software

Surely, above two ways work sometimes. But whether there is another way more easily and effectively to find Windows 8 product key? The answer is yes. iSunshare Product Key Finder is such third-party software used to find forgotten or lost product keys for installed software programs, including Windows, Office, SQL Server, IE, Adobe etc.

Step 1: Get Product Key Finder and install it on your computer.

Step 2: Run it and click Start Recovery. Product Key Finder begins to find Windows 8 product key and product ID and other software license keys.


About few seconds later, you will see their product keys and product ID listed in the Product Key Finder.

Step 3: Click Save or Save to File button to save all the product keys in a text document.

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Open the text file, you would see not Windows 8 or 8.1 product key is saved there, but also product keys of Microsoft Office, SQL Server, and other software listed above are found together.

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Learning has never been so easy!

While completing a Server 2012 setup I went to activate the OS and kept getting errors. Window luckily show you the last set of characters in the activation key (so how they were not even close to what they were suppose to be.

The odd thing was that windows did not allow me to change the key from any of the GUI's

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So out came the Powershell..

2 Steps total

Step 1: Clear The Current Key

Open Powershell with admin rights then enter:

Neo piano vst download. slmgr -upk (this removes the current Product Key)

Step 2: Add The New (or Correct Key)

Now that the key is cleared you can either stay in Powershell and enter the new key with the following:

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slmgr -ipk XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX (with the X's of course being the Key )

or

Go the the activation GUI and you will now be able to enter a Key

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There you have it! Quick, simple and it gets the job done

19 Comments

  • Mace
    molan Feb 25, 2013 at 06:14pm

    Thanks for Sharing! Windows 8 has the exact same issue I don't know why Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to remove the ability to type in a new key via the GUI. What a pain in the butt!

  • Sonora
    litefoot_tech Feb 25, 2013 at 06:46pm

    I also had this issue when installing 2012. At the time I did a quick Google search and discovered that it didn't have the correct key. Used the Power-shell commands and put in the correct key and kabooom. it worked! Its crazy the GUI doesn't let you enter a different key.

  • Habanero
    Twon of An Feb 27, 2013 at 04:00am

    Great! Glad it isn't too different from previous versions.

  • Jalapeno
    Mze_Geek Mar 7, 2013 at 08:11pm

    Works great! Used on one of my 2012 servers. Add on question: how do I reveal a product key?

  • Chipotle
    The Immortal Aug 23, 2013 at 10:05pm

    Thank you! This helped.
    It seems that Microsoft if heading toward phasing out the GUI for servers. It probably won't be too long before you won't have a choice for a GUI or core install - you'll just get a core install with PowerShell to do everything.

  • Habanero
    SW-Desperado Jan 11, 2014 at 02:52pm

    thanks Brad - great and simple! I agree this was a dumb way of MS to manage this though

  • Sonora
    Euler4121 Jan 28, 2014 at 02:34pm

    Works fine on windows 2012 data center edition, thank you

  • Jalapeno
    Biotech Feb 14, 2014 at 05:12pm

    Thank you so much, great tip and worked like a charm.

  • Pimiento
    sharonbarnard Feb 21, 2014 at 09:20pm

    I did run the PS command slmgr -upk to remove the activation key but when I tried to enter the key I was given by our tech team, I received an error.
    The error gave me a command that lets me get to the GUI to enter the product key.
    If you run the PS command 'slui.exe', the GUI will open with a button that says 'add product key'

  • Jalapeno
    outsourceitmx Jun 18, 2014 at 11:38pm

    This worked just as you said! Great work, thank you!

  • Sonora
    Vanya8080 Jul 4, 2014 at 04:12pm

    Hi, you can bring up the GUI to change the product key by typing 'slui 3' in the Run window..

  • Pimiento
    sys2k6862 Oct 6, 2014 at 07:49pm

    for those who are interested in doing through GUI. Open 'Server Manager', click 'Local Server' from the left panel. In the 'Properties' window look for 'Product ID' click the blue hyper link. It will open 'Windows Activation' where you can enter new product key and activate.

  • Pimiento
    Robert7193 Aug 17, 2015 at 03:07pm

    I ran across some different directions when activating a 2012 R2. I was having some issues with the above solution so hopefully the below directions will help some other poor soul out there at some point.

    If you are having issues with activating your installation, here is an alternative solution:
    1. From an elevated command prompt, determine the current edition name with the command 'DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition'. Make note of the edition ID, an abbreviated form of the edition name.
    Then run 'DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula', providing the edition ID and a retail product key. The server will restart twice.

  • Thai Pepper
    Dan8422 Oct 6, 2015 at 03:12pm

    Awesome. Thanks. Just what I needed to get this going.

  • Poblano
    Wade H Nov 12, 2015 at 01:14pm

    Just had to use this method to make it eat my Open License up from the EVAL of 2012R2 Thanks so much!!! it Worked!

    Robert7193 Aug 17, 2015 at 9:07am

    I ran across some different directions when activating a 2012 R2. I was having some issues with the above solution so hopefully the below directions will help some other poor soul out there at some point.

    If you are having issues with activating your installation, here is an alternative solution:
    1. From an elevated command prompt, determine the current edition name with the command 'DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition'. Make note of the edition ID, an abbreviated form of the edition name.
    Then run 'DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula', providing the edition ID and a retail product key. The server will restart twice.

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