On 27 Sep 2006 at 11:19, win-Home wrote:

> Anyone come across a utility that can extract a MS Office install key from 
> the registry files themselves? ie you have a broken/nonbootable windows 
> install and you want to pull the keys from the registry files themselves, 
> winnt\system32\config\software 

I tried keyfinderPE on my bartpe disk, but it just says "can't load hive" in 
the status bar at the bottom of it's window.
 
> I am in this situation with a client, his system drive borked running win2k, 
> I was able to recover some of the data including the registry files and using 
> WWR, I can browse the files and recover non-encrypted/obscured keys.

I notice that WWR does show the OS installation key, but nothing for office.
 

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