Fsx Product Key Finder

Product Key Explorer - Find Thousands of popular software Product Keys instantly! Product Key Explorer recovers product key for Windows, MS Office, Adobe CS, SQL Server and more than +8000 popular software products installed on your local or remote network computers. In order to install or reinstall Microsoft Office.

1. Windows Product Key Finder

There are many backup software on the market and some of them does a really good job in making sure that there is an exact copy of the important files available at the backup drive. Although backing up of files is important, many people forget to backup the Windows product key or third party software license that is installed on their computer. When their computer crashes and had to reinstall everything from scratch, they had to go through the trouble of searching for the license number to activate the software that they’ve purchased. If the license key are misplaced and forgotten, they’d have to contact the software support team and provide them with proof of purchase so that they can reissue the license.

The problem is software licenses aren’t stored in one standard location where you can just copy the whole folder to backup and then paste it back to reactivate all the software. They are stored all over the place either in a form of an external file or a registry key. Fortunately we found 10 software that can scan your computer and recover the lost or forgotten product key licenses so you can back it up in case you need to reactivate them again. Computer technicians can also use these software to help customers recover their software license numbers from non-bootable drive.

1. LicenseCrawler

LicenseCrawler is a portable license recovery tool that is free for private use. It scans the registry area on local and remote computers located at the same network for available serial numbers for Windows, Office and third party applications. The amount of software license that LicenseCrawler can detect is unknown because there is no such information being published at their website or program. Since it is free, you can run it and cross check if it is able to reveal the license for the shareware installed on your computer. Works on all versions of Windows including both 32-bit and 64-bit.

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2. MSKeyViewer Plus

MSKeyViewer Plus is free and portable. Although the name of this tool sounded like it can only view Microsoft key, but it also support Office and third party applications as well. To view the supported applications, run the program, click the About button and followed by clicking the Supported Products button. The list of supported product seems a bit outdated because this program itself was last updated nearly 2 years ago.

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3. Product Key Finder

Product Key Finder is free but take note of the adware installation when installing this program. It is a very simple program that claims to support over 200 programs but without a detailed listings. Running the program will instantly list all the license number and allows you to backup to a CSV file by clicking the Save button. Only support 32-bit Windows operating system.

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4. Softkey Revealer

Softkey Revealer is free and portable program that is able to support retrieving licenses from a huge list of software which can be found on this page. Other than just depending on the signature that they created, it also seems to list keys with the value username, password, user and etc. The program is very small in size at only 200KB in size and even comes with additional tools to decrypt Adobe encrypted key, removing content advisor password and changing the current Windows key.

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5. Keyfinder Thing

Keyfinder Thing is probably one of the most popular free tool to help you recover product keys from your computer. It supports a total of 90 software titles which can be viewed from the View > Software List. You can save the results from the File menu. Take note of the installation of adware during setup.

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6. Magic Keyfinder 2012

Magic Keyfinder 2012 is actually a shareware but the you can use it for free with a huge limitation where only the first 10 digits of the supported product keys are displayed. The actual amount of supported software are unknown. Other than using their database signature, you can also use the deep scan where it detects a certain keywords and determine that it is a possible license key. During testing, only 5 digits from our Windows 7 product keys are being displayed.

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7. Product Key Viewer

Product Key Viewer is a shareware that supports retrieving license key over 1000 applications from your computer. Only the Pro and Tech version will report activation keys for third party applications. The Lite version will only locate the Windows and Office product keys. You can test Product Key Viewer to identify what software is being identified on your computer for free except the data are being partially hidden.

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8. Product Key Finder by Top Password

The name of this software is exactly the same as the one listed under number 3 except this is a shareware that cost $17.95 and developed under a different company called Top Password. The amount of supported software is unknown but the official webpage did mention Windows, Office, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, VMWare, Adobe and many other products. The results are displayed instantly upon scanning. It supports scanning the current system, remote system or even on non-booting systems. Works on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.

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9. Product Key Explorer

Product Key Explorer is a shareware that cost $29.50 that supports more than 4000 software and games as well. You can view the complete list of supported products at this page. You can scan both local and remote computers with the built-in option to use a different login credentials. The results can be saved to an external file or a registry file.

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10. Recover Keys

Recover Keys is developed by the same company as KeyFinder Thing except that this is their shareware version that supports over 3000 software titles including games. It cost $24.95 to unlock the program or else it will only show the first 4 characters of the license number. It also comes with advanced features to scan multiple computers through IP range or manually selecting the computers that is available on the network.

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Editor’s Note: After testing the 10 product key recovery software above, the software that stood out in the tests are LicenseCrawler and Recover Keys. Both of this tool managed to retrieve additional licenses that weren’t detected on the other 8. Although some of the software claims to support recovering license keys from more than a few thousands software, it is possible that the software installed on your computer is not in the list. You can definitely make a request by contact them to include it in their database.

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Belarc Advisor – try this software ,it is absolutely free and you can easly get your system details including windows key !!!!!!!!

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“Editor’s Note: After testing the 10 product key recovery software above, the software that stood out in the tests are LicenseCrawler and Recover Key”

I tried those two programs.
The presentation of the results is 10 times better in ‘Recover Key’, so I purchased that.
(BitsDuJour is selling it at 40% off for the next 2 hours)

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Dear sir, I have forgotten my software’s last 5digit Serial number. How could i recover those 5 digit serial right now i have the remaining serial number. Software Name is Vakia from ICS products Salem
kindly needful your honor response, Thanking you

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SterJo Key Finder is better and it reveals lots of keys. Also its free unlike some of those mention here.
Here is the link of the website: sterjosoft.com

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thanks!!

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thank you so much for your help. the keyfinder software really works!! =)

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i like this website… :)

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thank you

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thanks a lot

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man. u rock! thanks for that!! :)

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Great small app! I’ll add it to my Great Software List soon.
Thanks!

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This tool is pretty handy if one needed to reformat their PCs incase of things might go wrong. Anyway, good post.. Keep it up! Regards.

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While this is a useful utility, it will be interesting to see what Microsoft’s take on it is.

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The FSX Reg Utility was prepared especially for users with custom setups or who manually copied the FSX installation to another folder or drive and reformatted their drives, but want to retain their FSX installation with all its add-ons. Using this utility may avoid the need to reinstall FSX and allows you to restore the path in the registry quickly and easily in the case that you are not confident editing the Registry yourself. By TweakFS (Fermin Fernandez).

Thank you for downloading the TweakFS Registry Utility for FSX! This is by far our most downloaded file ever at TweakFS. We hope it will help you sort out any FSX registry problems and avoid the need to re-install FSX, such as when manually copying a FSX installation to another drive or when the registry entry goes missing for any reason.

Overview:

Many FSX applications and their installers depend on knowing the path to the fsx.exe file as reported in the Windows Registry. But what if the registry entry has been corrupted or deleted when reinstalling Windows? Manually copying the FSX folder to another folder or drive will also invalidate the registry entry. This may in some cases prevent an FSX add-on from working correctly (i.e. it cannot find FSX on your system).

The FSX Reg Utility was prepared especially for users with custom setups or who manually copied the FSX installation to another folder or drive and reformatted their drives, but want to retain their FSX installation with all its add-ons. Using this utility may avoid the need to reinstall FSX and allows you to restore the path in the registry quickly and easily in the case that you are not confident editing the Registry yourself.

Please Note:

This utility will not necessarily fix all your FSX/Registry ills, nor do we claim it does anything special. All it is designed to do is provide an easy, safe way to help you correct the FSX registry entry and make sure that the folder path store in the registry matches the actual path on your systems hard drive. Some issues may be more related to how the add-on was coded but generally speaking if the add-on requires the correct FSX installation path to exist in the registry (the right way of doing things) then this utility may help.

We may be adding more functionality in the future so if you have any suggestions please do let us know.

THE WINDOWS REGISTRY - WHAT IS IT?

First of all, let us dispel a few misgivings about this mysterious beast we call the Windows Registry. The Registry is basically a database or central repository that holds configuration settings for Windows and other programs that utilize it. It was introduced starting with Windows 95 to replace the Win.ini file as well as other INI files used by third-party applications which could be scattered all over the hard drive.

Editing the Windows Registry is a very simple process using the RegEdit program (type regedit into the Windows 'Run' box). However the tricky bit for most PC users is knowing what to edit and where the correct entry is found. If you do not know what you are supposed to do then it is strongly recommended to give it a wide berth, or at least back up the registry before making any changes in case you need to do a roll-back. Other than that there is no real mystique with the Registry, it just holds a bunch of information, including for example what folder/drive you installed FSX to, which is the reason why we need to keep that entry valid (i.e. in the sense that it points to the actual folder location where the fsx.exe file resides on your drive).

Features:

• Reports the FSX path in the Windows Registry.
• Repairs the FSX path in the Windows Registry.
• Handles both LOCAL_MACHINE and CURRENT_USER root registry keys.
• Checks the path to make sure the fsx.exe file is present.
• Warns if the registry path is missing.
• Sets the registry path(s) to the fsx.exe file.
• Sets the registry path(s) to the CD-ROM drive.
• Warns if the fsx.exe is not in folder on clicking the 'Set' button.
• Avoids the need to reinstall FSX in the event of registry corruption.
• Automatically scrolls and searches for the FSX Reg key in the Windows RegEdit program. *
• AutoCheck (Developer Mode) automatically checks the FSX registry entry.
• * (Under Windows Vista this auto-scrolling search feature may be blocked if the UAC is turned on).

AUTOCHECK (DEVELOPER MODE)

This feature has been added to help developers of add-ons by providing an automatic way of checking the FSX registry entry and giving feedback to the end-user as to the status of the registry. Developers of freeware/payware add-ons that depend on a correct FSX registry entry are welcome to include this utility in their installer.

How to use it:

Simply include the INI file (see INI_FILE.ZIP) in the same folder as the EXE. The presence of the INI file puts the utility into AutoCheck mode.

What the end-user sees:

When the EXE is called (either directly by the end-user, or by your installer) a dialog will display indicating that the check is in process. If the registry entry checks out fine the dialog will inform that FSX was found and exit. Before exiting the dialog will briefly state that the entry was found in either the LOCAL_MACHINE or CURRENT_USER key and this info may be particularly relevant to the developer (See next sub-heading below entitled 'LOCAL_MACHINE or CURRENT_USER?'). If the FSX registry entry is missing or incorrect (i.e. does not point to the FSX folder) then the user will be given the option of entering the FSX Registry Utility's GUI in order to Analyse/Set the registry entry.

Version 1.21 (Nov 19, 2007) enhances the AutoCheck feature by adding 3 icons and a slightly longer delay (3 sec) to dialog to help users better see results. The icons are as follows:

• Search Icon + Text 'Checking Registry for correct folder path to FSX...'
• Green Shield Icon + Text 'FSX installation folder located under CURRENT_USER/LOCAL_MACHINE!'
• Red Shield Icon + Text 'FSX installation folder NOT FOUND!'

What/How it checks:

The utility will (1) FIRST check the FSX 'SetupPath' under the LOCAL_MACHINE key, and (2) SECOND will check the 'AppPath' under the CURRENT_USER key (in that specific order).

Why that particular order? Because it appears many add-ons continue to look for the FSX registry entry under the LOCAL_MACHINE root key, perhaps due to previous experience with FS9. If the utility checks the CURRENT_USER key first (and then exists successfully) the very real possibility exists that the utility can give the user the thumbs-up (FSX found), but the add-on may still not work because it is looking in the LOCAL_MACHINE key. So the search order is LOCAL_MACHINE first, followed by CURRENT_USER second and exists when either of those two keys point to the actual FSX folder.

What if an add-on looks for the FSX folder in the CURRENT_USER key only (a rare occurrence perhaps), but the user has installed FSX 'for all users' (i.e. LOCAL_MACHINE)? Please see the next sub-heading.

LOCAL_MACHINE or CURRENT_USER?

In the past, the Flight Simulator 2004 installation program would generally write the FS9 folder path to the LOCAL_MACHINE root registry key and most FS add-ons would look for it in this location.

The Flight Simulator X installation program screen now gives you a checkbox with the option to 'Install for all users'. If this box is left unchecked the FSX folder path will be written to the CURRENT_USER instead of LOCAL_MACHINE. This may throw a spanner in the works for some add-ons.

Windows Product Key Finder

This edition of the FSX Registry Utility writes the FSX folder path to the LOCAL_MACHINE key by default with a checkbox option to also write it to the CURRENT_USER key in case an add-on is trying to read the FSX folder from there.

This also brings up the issue of how to code add-ons correctly so as to ensure compatibility in all cases. It is recommended that any code used to 'get' the FSX folder path make allowance for both LOCAL_MACHINE and CURRENT_USER keys.

VISTA-SPECIFIC NOTES:

If you are using Windows Vista with UAC (User Account Control) turned on, there are some considerations to keep in mind. It is not the purpose of this readme to go into the details about how the UAC behaves, but there are articles on the subject.

More the point for FS users is that with UAC turned on, if you try and 'Set' the registry key it may not end up under the path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator10.0

...but more like here in the 'VirtualStore' section:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesVirtualStoreMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator10.0

Here Vista is virtualizing the key to prevent any unauthorized changes to the registry.

That should not be a problem with most FS add-ons because when it requests the FSX folder path from the registry Vista should redirect the request to the VirtualStore key. With other add-ons this may present a problem and they may report 'FSX not found' or similar.

However, if you want to directly write the FSX reg path to the actual LOCAL_MACHINE root key you may need to temporarily turn off the UAC while you perform the changes.

Please also keep in mind that the Vista UAC is blocking the Search Reg button function, it will not work with UAC turned on. Because it automatically starts up RegEdit and autoscrolls or drills down into the registry until it finds the reg key, the UAC is considering that to somehow be 'un-authorized' and is therefore blocking it.

Installation:

This is a stand-alone application, no installation is required. Simply extract or copy the 'FSXRegUtility.exe' to any location and run the program by double-clicking on the file. If you are using the 'AutoCheck' mode you will need to include the INI file in the same folder as the EXE, please see the sub-heading 'AUTOCHECK (DEVELOPER MODE)' above for more details.

Version History:

Version 1.21 - November 19, 2007

• Enhanced AutoCheck feature (See 'AUTOCHECK' sub-heading above) - Added Icons and slightly longer delay (3 sec) to dialog to help users see results.

Version 1.2 - September 21, 2007

• Added AutoCheck feature (See 'AUTOCHECK' sub-heading above).

Version 1.1 - January 17, 2007

• Removes the Beta time-out message on startup which was set to 30 Dec, 2006 (Ooops, sorry guys).

Version 1.0 - December 22, 2006

• Initial release.

This utility has several safety features to help prevent errors such as adding the wrong path to the registry, but being freeware it is to be used at your own risk, no warranty or support is offered.