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Welcome : Read through this. Microsoft article and scroll down to
"Locate your, windows product key for Windows 7 & **8.1**"
Link : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-windows-product-key-aaa2bf69-
7b2b-9f13-f581-a806abf0a886#:~:text=Locate%20your%20product%20key%20for%20Wind****
Also, windows users find their - Product Key - using the
"Command Prompt as (Administrator)" others make use of
Third-party apps online, like : Product keyFinder, NeoSmart,.Etc
To open "Command Prompt" just Right-click the **Start** button
on the > Left screen corner > select - Command Prompt as (Admin)
a small black Screen appears. Type the command below : After the **\_** Blinking dash
Wmic Path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey : **** press-Enter
After typed carefully the, above code : Cmd Prompt. will show the
activated product key : So you can write it down : Hope this helps,.?
how to find the product key for windows 8.1 on computer
Activation key for w8.1 with mc (64)
Windows 8.1 activation
How to activate window 8.1
Forum helper
Welcome : Read through this. Microsoft article and scroll down to
"Locate your, windows product key for Windows 7 & **8.1**"
Link : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/find-your-windows-product-key-aaa2bf69-
7b2b-9f13-f581-a806abf0a886#:~:text=Locate%20your%20product%20key%20for%20Wind****
Also, windows users find their - Product Key - using the
"Command Prompt as (Administrator)" others make use of
Third-party apps online, like : Product keyFinder, NeoSmart,.Etc
To open "Command Prompt" just Right-click the **Start** button
on the > Left screen corner > select - Command Prompt as (Admin)
a small black Screen appears. Type the command below : After the **\_** Blinking dash
Wmic Path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey : **** press-Enter
After typed carefully the, above code : Cmd Prompt. will show the
activated product key : So you can write it down : Hope this helps,.?
With Windows 8/8.1 The Product Key on preinstalled Operating Systems (HP, Acer, etc) is embedded in the BIOS in the Motherboard, so that the lost and/or worn C.O.A. Sticker problem is no more.
This information may interest you if you do wish to keep a record of it:
"Windows 10 Embedded Product Key Tool"
https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/windows-10-embedded-product-key-tool/
"We’re proud to introduce the immediate release of our newest utility for Windows users: the NeoSmart Technologies Embedded Product Key Tool. Designed for users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10, our embedded product key tool will retrieve and display the Windows setup product key embedded in the BIOS or EFI, allowing you to store it for safe-keeping or use it to reinstall Windows with an official Windows setup image."
You can also use:
"Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit (Version 8.5c)"
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Or:
"Product KeyFinder"
https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/
I have an AIO PC that recently didn't work, I was running win 10 but it was really slow, so I decided to downgrade to 8.1.
It immediately startet being faster. But I had a problem.
I didn't have an activation key.
If you know win8.1 well enough you may know that every time you log in a blue screen appears yelling at you to activate windows and later when you are using the system it appears back. And it's really annoying.
So yeah, if anyone has an activation key, please comment it.
Help is appreciated.
Hello,
I reinstalled Windows 8.1 on notebooku Lenovo T450 - there is an OEM version on it, but when I try to activate it through System, it tells me I cannot use the OEM key to activate this version of Windows.
The version was downloaded from microsoft - N for Europe and I installed it through USB and used dumy key from windows website, caue it didn't want to accept the OEM key there either.
How am I to proceed now? Would calling MS helped?
From our experience with Windows 8 upgrades, you're right out of luck. If your Windows 8.1 becomes inactivated for any reason, you can only use an 8.1 key to activate it. The keys are (intentionally) different and incompatible.
No, it didn't read an 8.1 key from anywhere. It just remembered it was activated and (because the Store is secure) it was allowed to stay that way. Upgrades via DVD seem to always finish up deactivated and needing a new key.
Your choices are (a) buy/acquire a new 8.1 key or (b) roundtrip through reinstalling 8 and upgrading through the Store. You can talk to Microsoft or your OEM supplier, but I wouldn't expect much help.
use the command line tool slmgr.vbs to insert the key:
slmgr.vbs /ipk YOUR_OEM_KEY
Now run this command to activate Windows:
slmgr.vbs /ato
Maybe this will work for you. Note it does involve a temporary text file.
wmic path softwarelicenseingservice get oa3xoriginalproductkey > temp.txt
3<temp.txt (
set /p var= <&3
set /p var= <&3
)
del temp.txt
Echo %var%
Which will always extract the second line of output from the command.
I have tested this with the data you provided and it outputted XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX. TO access this variable always refer to it as %var%.
Here's how i would do it
Logon scripts accept powershell scripts which has much more features and strength in it than the old batch files.
$key = Get-WmiObject -Class SoftwareLicensingService |
Select-Object OA3xOriginalProductKey | foreach { "{0}" -f $_.OA3xOriginalProductKey }
with this command, you get your ProductID into the $key variable and free to do any manipulation you'd like with it