Where Find Your Windows 8 Product Key

So, you install Windows 8, use it, enjoy it until you have to reinstall it. When that happens, you’ll need your Windows 8 product key. Like so many other software and operating systems, Windows 8 will ask you to enter the product key or the serial number in order to reinstall the operating system.

If you purchase Windows 8 in a retail package, then the product key should be with it. If you buy it online, then the product key should be with your email confirmation you received after you’ve made the purchase of the OS. If you go for a computer that comes with Windows 8 preinstalled, then the product key should be with the documentation that came with your computer or on a sticker on your new machine.

In case you can’t find the product key and you need it in order to continue the reinstallation, you can go for a product key finder and extract this number from the Windows Registry. Keep in mind that such a program works only if you previously installed Windows 8 and thus manually entered the product key.

The first thing to do is to choose such a program that supports Windows 8. Unfortunately, Windows 8 doesn’t offer the possibility to locate the product key manually. Therefore, a product key finder is needed to find it and decrypt it.

Once you’ve made up your mind about the tool you’re going to use, download it and install it following the instructions that you’ll see during the installation. Since many of such tools come with optional add-on programs, make sure you pay attention to what you check/uncheck during the installation. If don’t want add-on programs, then just uncheck this option when installing the key product finder.

Using a key finder program is quite simple. When the installation completes, simply run the program and you’ll see the Windows 8 product key. This should be a series of 25 letters and numbers. Write it down just as shown to use it when reinstalling the operating system.

In case you still can’t find the product key, you are left with two more possibilities, both of them quite expensive. You either request a replacement Windows 8 product key from Microsoft or you buy a new copy of Windows 8 and thus get a new product key.