Visual Studio 2008 Product Key in Registry

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I have a friend who needs to reinstall windows  but he can t find his VS2008 activation code product key  Is there a way to look up which product key he entered when he last installed VS2008 in the registry  Any other method of finding the key is also welcome

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For Visual Studio 2005      If you do have an installed Visual Studio 2005 however  and want to find out the serial number you   ve used to install it because you don   t have a clue where you put that shiny sticker  you can  It is  like most things in Windows  in the registry       HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 8 0 Registration PIDKEY      In order to convert the value in that key to an actual serial number you have to put a dash         after evert 5 characters of the code    From  http   www gooli org blog visual-studio-2005-serial-number   For Visual Studio 2008 it s supposed to be      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 9 0 Registration PIDKEY   However I noted that the the Data field for PIDKEY is only filled in the 1000 0x000  or 2000 0x000  sub folder of the above paths

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Just delete key   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft VCExpress 9 0 Registration   Or run in command line   reg delete HKCU Software Microsoft VCExpress 9 0 Registration  f

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I found the product key for Visual Studio 2008 Professional under a slightly different  key   HKLM SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft MSDN 8 0 Registration PIDKEY   it was listed without the dashes as stated above

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For 32 bit Windows    Visual Studio 2003       HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 7 0 Registration PIDKEY   Visual Studio 2005       HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 8 0 Registration PIDKEY   Visual Studio 2008      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft VisualStudio 9 0 Registration PIDKEY     For 64 bit Windows    Visual Studio 2003      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft VisualStudio 7 0 Registration PIDKEY   Visual Studio 2005      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft VisualStudio 8 0 Registration PIDKEY   Visual Studio 2008      HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Microsoft VisualStudio 9 0 Registration PIDKEY     Notes    Data is a GUID without dashes  Put a dash         after every 5 characters to convert to product key  If PIDKEY value is empty try to look at the subfolders e g          Registration 1000 0x0000 PIDKEY   or         Registration 2000 0x0000 PIDKEY

[visual-studio-2008] Visual Studio 2008 Product Key in Registry?

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