{"id":5747,"date":"2017-11-07T09:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2024-04-08T22:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T16:48:03","slug":"view-your-product-key-windows-10-8-7-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/view-your-product-key-windows-10-8-7-script\/","title":{"rendered":"How to View Your Windows 10 Product Key Using Script or Command-line"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many tools to extract the Product Key<\/a> from a live system or from the registry hive of an offline computer. Additionally, here is a neat little Vbscript that gets the Product Key of your current Windows installation–no third-party program required. The script works on Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10.<\/p>\n

View Windows 10 Product Key<\/h2>\n

Method 1: Using WMI command-line or PowerShell<\/h3>\n

Use the following WMI command-line to fix the product key of your Windows installation.<\/p>\n

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey<\/pre>\n
This method retrieves the activation key stored in the UEFI\/BIOS of your computer.<\/p>\n
Note that you’ll need to run the above command from an elevated\/admin Command Prompt<\/a> window.<\/p>\n
\"wmic<\/p>\n
Or, if you’re using PowerShell, run this command from an admin PowerShell window to know the product key:<\/p>\n
(Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey<\/pre>\n
In some systems, the above commands would output the caption OA3xOriginalProductKey<\/code> and blank rows beneath, showing no product key. This happens if the device doesn’t have an embedded activation\/product key.<\/p>\n
If the device has a firmware-embedded activation key, it will be displayed in the output. If the output is blank, the device does not have a firmware embedded activation key. Most OEM-provided devices designed to run Windows 8 or later will have a firmware-embedded key.<\/p>\n
Method 2: Using Script<\/h3>\n
Important:<\/strong> Note that the following method simply decodes the DigitalProductId<\/code> registry value to get the retail product key. The key retrieved using this method could either be the auto-generated generic Windows 10 key<\/a> (for systems upgraded from Windows 7 or 8 under digital entitlement). It could also be the retail edition key (if you bought the license earlier) you entered manually during Windows 10 setup. So, if you’re using Windows 10, it’s advisable to give priority to the 1st method.<\/p>\n
Copy the following code to Notepad and save the file as GetProductKey.vbs.<\/p>\n
Option Explicit  \r\n \r\nDim objshell,path,DigitalID, Result  \r\nSet objshell = CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\") \r\n'Set registry key path \r\nPath = \"HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\\" \r\n'Registry key value \r\nDigitalID = objshell.RegRead(Path & \"DigitalProductId\") \r\nDim ProductName,ProductID,ProductKey,ProductData \r\n'Get ProductName, ProductID, ProductKey \r\nProductName = \"Product Name: \" & objshell.RegRead(Path & \"ProductName\") \r\nProductID = \"Product ID: \" & objshell.RegRead(Path & \"ProductID\") \r\nProductKey = \"Installed Key: \" & ConvertToKey(DigitalID)  \r\nProductData = ProductName  & vbNewLine & ProductID  & vbNewLine & ProductKey \r\n'Show messbox if save to a file  \r\nIf vbYes = MsgBox(ProductData  & vblf & vblf & \"Save to a file?\", vbYesNo + vbQuestion, \"BackUp Windows Key Information\") then \r\n   Save ProductData  \r\nEnd If \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n'Convert binary to chars \r\nFunction ConvertToKey(Key) \r\n    Const KeyOffset = 52 \r\n    Dim isWin8, Maps, i, j, Current, KeyOutput, Last, keypart1, insert \r\n    'Check if OS is Windows 8 \r\n    isWin8 = (Key(66) \\ 6) And 1 \r\n    Key(66) = (Key(66) And &HF7) Or ((isWin8 And 2) * 4) \r\n    i = 24 \r\n    Maps = \"BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789\" \r\n    Do \r\n           Current= 0 \r\n        j = 14 \r\n        Do \r\n           Current = Current* 256 \r\n           Current = Key(j + KeyOffset) + Current \r\n           Key(j + KeyOffset) = (Current \\ 24) \r\n           Current=Current Mod 24 \r\n            j = j -1 \r\n        Loop While j >= 0 \r\n        i = i -1 \r\n        KeyOutput = Mid(Maps,Current+ 1, 1) & KeyOutput \r\n        Last = Current \r\n    Loop While i >= 0  \r\n     \r\n    If (isWin8 = 1) Then \r\n        keypart1 = Mid(KeyOutput, 2, Last) \r\n        insert = \"N\" \r\n        KeyOutput = Replace(KeyOutput, keypart1, keypart1 & insert, 2, 1, 0) \r\n        If Last = 0 Then KeyOutput = insert & KeyOutput \r\n    End If     \r\n     \r\n \r\n    ConvertToKey = Mid(KeyOutput, 1, 5) & \"-\" & Mid(KeyOutput, 6, 5) & \"-\" & Mid(KeyOutput, 11, 5) & \"-\" & Mid(KeyOutput, 16, 5) & \"-\" & Mid(KeyOutput, 21, 5) \r\n    \r\n     \r\nEnd Function \r\n'Save data to a file \r\nFunction Save(Data) \r\n    Dim fso, fName, txt,objshell,UserName \r\n    Set objshell = CreateObject(\"wscript.shell\") \r\n    'Get current user name  \r\n    UserName = objshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(\"%UserName%\")  \r\n    'Create a text file on desktop  \r\n    fName = \"C:\\Users\\\" & UserName & \"\\Desktop\\WindowsKeyInfo.txt\" \r\n    Set fso = CreateObject(\"Scripting.FileSystemObject\") \r\n    Set txt = fso.CreateTextFile(fName) \r\n    txt.Writeline Data \r\n    txt.Close \r\nEnd Function\r\n<\/pre>\n
Source: Retrieve Windows Product Key \u00b7 GitHub<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n
Double-click to run the script to find out the Product Key of your Windows installation.<\/p>\n
\"vbscript
Product Key retrieved using Vbscript<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are many tools to extract the Product Key from a live system or from the registry hive of an offline computer. Additionally, here is a neat little Vbscript that gets the Product Key of your current Windows installation–no third-party program required. 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