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Windows 8 Product Key from BIOS reading

  • Oct 17, 2025
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If you buy a Computer with pre-installed Windows 8 as an OEM version, you can't find the Product Key on a sticker on the device. He is now listed in the BIOS and with the Hardware associated with it. This is how you read it.

Product Key of Windows 8 to find out

For a clean installation of Windows 8, only the possibility of a Recovery Installation is provided in the event of a problem. Who wants to install his purchased Windows 8, however on the same Computer is clean and without advertising software of the Hardware manufacturer's new, the needs the Product Key. The same Problem arises also in the case of an installed full version if you have misplaced the DVD case with the necessary number.
  • Because the Product Key with onboard tools is not available, you can use a small free Tool such as the Windows 8 Product Key Viewer.
  • Extract the ZIP-archive and run "pkeyui.exe". May be this application is classified by the anti-virus program as potentially dangerous. You can ignore it, but confidently and run the Tool.
  • Without further Installation, the program displays the key of the current Installation, which also works in previous versions, starting with Windows XP. About the only button you copy the found Product Key in the clipboard.

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