Finding game product ID's on my hard drive

[David Kistner]

I'm rebuilding my son's computer and want to reformat the hard drive.
There are a few of his games (Age of Empires II and a few others) that
will need to be reinstalled. We have the software CD's, but not the
product ID's. Is there a way to find these on the old computer before I
reformat the drive? Thanks.

- David Kistner

 

[John Doe]

I'm rebuilding my son's computer and want to reformat the hard
drive. There are a few of his games (Age of Empires II and a few
others) that will need to be reinstalled. We have the software
CD's, but not the product ID's. Is there a way to find these on
the old computer before I reformat the drive? Thanks.

I think it would depend on the games individually. Always use a
permanent marker to write the CD key on the CD immediately after
buying the CD and before installing the game.

If you really do have the CDs, you can go to gamecopyworld.com and
get no-CD cracks.

 

[John Doe]

If you really do have the CDs, you can go to gamecopyworld.com and
get no-CD cracks.

Never mind, that is irrelevant.

 

[Snoops]

Belarc Advisor (free) will list all your Licence keys.

Available here:-

http://www.belarc.com

 

[John Doe]

Belarc Advisor (free) will list all your Licence keys.
Available here:-
http://www.belarc.com

If it does work, I would definitely have a firewall running while
using it.

 

[David Kistner]

Belarc Advisor (free) will list all your Licence keys.

Available here:-

http://www.belarc.com

I tried this. It listed some of the product keys, but not most. Thanks
anyway.

- David Kistner

 

[dawg]

Try searching the registry. Kinda cumbersome though.