Software for Finding Serial Numbers???????

[Chris]

In our company we have many copies of Windows XP and
Office XP. We keep the CD's in a log file but for some
strange reason we have lost all the serial numbers for
each CD. So we dont know which CD belongs to which
computer. I no, before you ask nobody made a backup. Can
you believe that. Anyway is there a peice of software out
there that will read the CD and tell me the serial number
of each CD so we can record them.

Cheers

 

[Dorian Gray]

Aida32 will tell you the serial numbers on the computer thus you could find
them that way.

 

[Guest]

Dunno, doubt it though. Sounds suspiciously like it would be pirating
material to me.

 

[chris]

-----Original Message-----
Aida32 will tell you the serial numbers on the computer thus you could find
them that way.

Yeah but does it tell you the XP serial by reading the
relvant CD's which i want it to do.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

What makes you think that the PK is on the XP CD?

 

[Haggis]

In our company we have many copies of Windows XP and
Office XP. We keep the CD's in a log file but for some
strange reason we have lost all the serial numbers for
each CD. So we dont know which CD belongs to which
computer. I no, before you ask nobody made a backup. Can
you believe that. Anyway is there a peice of software out
there that will read the CD and tell me the serial number
of each CD so we can record them.

Cheers

the media is not computer dependant , the product key is....

 

[chris]

good question, just found out that it is not

-----Original Message-----
Hi

What makes you think that the PK is on the XP CD?

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[Alex Nichol]

In our company we have many copies of Windows XP and
Office XP. We keep the CD's in a log file but for some
strange reason we have lost all the serial numbers for
each CD. So we dont know which CD belongs to which
computer.

Use Aida32. No longer being further developed, but available at
www.aumha.org/freeware/freeware.htm#aida in the Everest section.

In this respect Aida is the better, as its Software - Licenses page will
tell you not only the key used for Windows, but also ones for Office and
some other software as well

Note that a machine that came with Windows pre-installed may return a
key used in making a batch; it is not appropriate for a re-install, but
in such cases the key for Windows will be on a label on the machine

 

[John McGaw]

In our company we have many copies of Windows XP and
Office XP. We keep the CD's in a log file but for some
strange reason we have lost all the serial numbers for
each CD. So we dont know which CD belongs to which
computer. I no, before you ask nobody made a backup. Can
you believe that. Anyway is there a peice of software out
there that will read the CD and tell me the serial number
of each CD so we can record them.

Cheers

There are no serial numbers (keys) on the CDs thus every XP or Office CD is
the same as any other of similar age. The keys exist on the little stickers
which you were supposed to have attached to each computer and, upon
installation, the software on the CD determines if the key you provide is
"good" but it does so only by performing mathematical tests upon it, not by
comparing it to a key embedded somehow on the CD.
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