From: JS on
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.

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"PVR" <peterv666(a)roadrunner.com> wrote in message
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>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
>