From: JS on 3 Feb 2009 14:57 Here are four utilities, all of which will display your product keys: Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html (It does a good job of providing a wealth of information.) Also: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml and: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html and RockXP: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4138.html which has additional features. -- JS http://www.pagestart.com "PVR" <peterv666(a)roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:u6ckNJahJHA.5632(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have two laptops, HP Pavilion/XP/3 and Toshiba Satellite a205/Vista/1. >Currently I am in process of moving files and apps over to the Vista >machine. I have MS Office 2000 on my XP machine. Although old this works >well for me because my needs are minor. > > Sometime in the distant past I transferred my distribution disks from the > standard jewel boxes to the slim type. In the case of MS Office I then > discarded the standard jewel box with its installation code. > > Under the Help/About MS Excel/Access/Word, etc there appears my name and a > Product ID. Would these help to obtain the correct installation code if I > wrote to MS? > > Many Thanks, > > Peter > |