Tuesday, December 7, 2010

How to delete product key from registry in windows 7



     You might be knowing that there are plenty of softwares available to find the product key of windows OS like Windows key finder , LicenceCrawler etc..which find the product key in less than a second.

 First backup your key  then it is a good idea to remove your product key from registry when you are sharing your pc with others, or some one may not find it using softwares mentioned earlier and mis use it.. or if you want to hide your key form other.. 

If you want to do so , then follow the simple steps, you can delete the product key just by using a command.

Open command prompt with admin rights, to do so navigate to command prompt in accessories and right click and choose "Run as administrator" or short cut is type CMD in start menu search bar and hit  Ctrl+Shift+Enter.


Then in command prompt type the following command and hit enter
slmgr -cpky

Wait for some time, you will see a message saying " product key from registry cleared successfully" 


YOU ARE DONE. 

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