Utility to extract office 2013 serial

[johnrobert]

Utility to extract office 2013 serial in Windows 8
I tried Belarc Advisor and the one in D7 I think its by Nirsoft but it did not show serial Only win8 and IE serials

I tried the one in D7 on my windows 7 laptop with Office 2013 and it found it.
maybe win8 has more security

 

[JustInspired]

If it's Click To Run installed I believe it cannot retrieve the key. At least that's what I found. If there is such a keyfinder I too would like to know about it.

 

[red12049]

Utility to extract office 2013 serial in Windows 8
I tried Belarc Advisor and the one in D7 I think its by Nirsoft but it did not show serial Only win8 and IE serials

I tried the one in D7 on my windows 7 laptop with Office 2013 and it found it.
maybe win8 has more security

I went on this quest some months ago. Found nothing.

Rick

 

[Markverhyden]

I've not tried it with O2013 but have you all tried Magical Jelly Bean? Worked in the past on many other things.

https://www.magicaljellybean.com/

Edit: Just saw this on EE. I thought I had read that M$ changed the way they do licensing.

I have just emailed the creators of Produkey and Magical Jellybean Keyfinder about this issue. Apparently Office 2013 does not store the product key in the system, only the last 4 or 5 digits, so key recovery software will not work.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Office 2013 is tied to a microsoft account. You use THAT to retrieve product keys. If they used a product key card and never registered that and then lost the card, they are screwed.

Though we all hate Microsoft Accounts, for this reason is why you need to use them anyway.

 

[Markverhyden]

Office 2013 is tied to a microsoft account. You use THAT to retrieve product keys. If they used a product key card and never registered that and then lost the card, they are screwed.

Though we all hate Microsoft Accounts, for this reason is why you need to use them anyway.

^^^^ That's what it is now that you mention it. Jogged my memory from back when O2013 came out. Was fixing some messed up installs at a small office and called M$ and that is basically what they said.

 

[kjm_phd]

I've not tried it with O2013 but have you all tried Magical Jelly Bean? Worked in the past on many other things.

Tried this for a client just the other day and it didn't work for me. I research indicated that there was no raw key stored in the registry as with prior versions of office, so there was nothing to MJB to find. Rather, the key is stored in an encrypted form somewhere... forget where I read that though.

Regardless, I tried Magical Jelly Bean and NirSoft ProducKey and neither worked for me.

(Ended up solving my client's problem rather than re-installing... corrupted DLLs.)

 

[johnrobert]

Had to replace HD I originally gave her the link to retrieve serial and spent 30 mins with her trying
But she could not even remember email address she used, she got 2013 from work one of those special $15 deals for 3 users it’s also installed on daughter’s computer were I was trying to extract serial
she paid extra to have media sent out but no good without serial
She said she has given up trying online as she is just too busy
M$ has made our job much harder. I have spent more time liaising etc with her as doing rest of job

 

[Krilus]

Have you tried Belarc Advisor? This is what I normally use to capture keys and system info

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

 

[lcoughey]

Have you tried Belarc Advisor? This is what I normally use to capture keys and system info

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

He stated that he tried it in the second line of the original post.

 

[Krilus]

He stated that he tried it in the second line of the original post.

You're right, I must be going blind or I read through it too quickly

 

[frase]

Office 2013 is tied to a microsoft account. You use THAT to retrieve product keys. If they used a product key card and never registered that and then lost the card, they are screwed.

Though we all hate Microsoft Accounts, for this reason is why you need to use them anyway.

..yeap , Its quite forceful marketing I think. Is MS trying to bring in more users or drive them away? With the 365 system it is ridiculous, does everyone want a cloud based backup. I generally offer residential clients open source software, if they are not using outlook within the environment.

 

[cypress]

Just purchased a copy of 2013 Office Pro, purchased the physical media as well. Printed out the serial keys and attached with the media along with storing it in my email. Don't wanna lose that key!

 

[creapure]

Joshcellsoftwares.com advanced tokens manager can back up and restore activations for windows and office although it does have some limitations with windows 8.1.

 

[Bootman 650]

Need his Microsoft Account details to recover that key - as mentioned previously.
At least if it's associated with his email address you can recover his password if it's been lost.

 

[cyabro]

Has anyone tried LicenseCrawler for Office 2013?

It should work for any that were installed with a retail copy using a license key, as you don't have to use a Microsoft account for those.

 

[JohnKennex]

recover-keys.com - $20 and pretty much recovers everything. I think it's the paid version of magicjellybean. install, reg, save keys, uninstall. I love it.

 

[nlinecomputers]

NONE of these products will work on Office 2013/365

Office 2013 or Office 365 do NOT store the key in the registry or on any file on the PC. There is NO method to retrieve the key as it is not stored on the machine in any form. Only a token activation file, tied to the hardware, is on the machine.

If you recall the original plan for this version was to be locked to the hardware installed on it with no chance to move to a new machine. After rioting broke out the powers at be at Microshaft relented and changed that policy. But the method is still in place and can't be circumvented.

You can get the last 5 digits of the number but only that via this method. (Helpful if you have a list of keys and don't recall which is installed on which machine)

https://support.office.com/en-nz/ar...allation-026bc81b-6b2f-4052-b433-f41e6cc31c5a