Me (registration number)

I recently had one of my older computers that I had given
to my grandson's crash and ended up putting a new hard
drive on it. I had upgraded to Windows ME (when it first
came out) from Windows 98. However somewhere in the
process I lost my registration code. I had registered it
with Microsoft. Does anyone know if there is any way to
recover the reg. code from them or any other way.

I wouldn't bother except I went and bought xp to put on
there instead but it won't take that as it come back with
an error about my system bios not being correct. I don't
want to start changing all that kind of stuff as it just
wouldn't be worth it. I have a HP 8660.

Thanks

Lowell

"Lowell Swenson" wrote:

I recently had one of my older computers that I had given
to my grandson's crash and ended up putting a new hard
drive on it. I had upgraded to Windows ME (when it first
came out) from Windows 98. However somewhere in the
process I lost my registration code. I had registered it
with Microsoft. Does anyone know if there is any way to
recover the reg. code from them or any other way.

I wouldn't bother except I went and bought xp to put on
there instead but it won't take that as it come back with
an error about my system bios not being correct. I don't
want to start changing all that kind of stuff as it just
wouldn't be worth it. I have a HP 8660.

Thanks

Lowell

Is the old hard drive still usable at all?

If it is put it back in and start up the computer. Safe Mode would be
okay if there are problems with a normal startup.

Use Start - Run - REGEDIT and then in Regedit use Edit - Find to
locate the character string ProductKey

Good luck



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