If by any chance, you’ve lost your windows vista or xp‘s product key, no need to worry, Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder can recover it for you. It’s a freeware open source software that retrieves your windows key from registry, giving you access to print or save it for future. It recovers keys for Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 etc and with a community-updated configuration file, you can also recover lost keys for other applications as well.

Features include:

  • Open Source – This means that it can be trusted. The Keyfinder does not contain trojans or “phone home” messages. No spam, spyware, viruses, or trojans.
  • Office 2007 & Windows Vista support!
  • An optional config file – this functionality lets you pull a key stored in the registry for any software. A sample config file is included in the zip and can be seen here: keyfinder.cfg
  • Command line options – /save <location> /savecsv <location> /close /hive <location> /file <filename>
  • Load Hive option – allows you to load the registry hive of another Windows installation. To use, put the hard drive in a working machine (must also be Windows 2000,XP or Vista) or use Windows PE (not tested, should work) and click Load Hive. Then point it to the dead Windows install. If you’re using Windows Vista, Administrator rights are required for this feature. You may have to right click on the Keyfinder and run as Administrator.
  • Improved Save & Print! – save & print options will now include all keys. Save is also available in text or CSV.

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder