Reclaiming the XP Home windows serial key?

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moises9485

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Recently, a family member may have gotten a virus on their laptop, on top of the slow performance it's been giving. I don't have a clue what the performance drop is from, but I do know that a format is probably the best solution, considering nothing essential is on it.

The thing is, the original CD and key was lost a while back for this, and I don't want to have to rebuy it. Is there a way to delve into the registry or somesuch and copy the key? I can use my own XP home disks for it.
 
goto majorgeeks
query magic jelly bean keyfinder
dam thing even found the key for windows 95.
 
Depending on how badly its been infected we may be able to restore the speed by running some scans on it. Follow this procedure if you would like to try before reformatting.

Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from here, here, here or here and save it to your desktop.
  • Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to
    • Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
    • and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
  • then click Finish.
  • If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
  • Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
  • Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.
  • A log will be saved automatically which you can access by clicking on the Logs tab within Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware

If you continue to experience problems after doing this, please post a HijackThis log by doing the following:

Download the HijackThis installer from here.
Run the installer and choose Install, indicating that you accept the licence agreement. The installer will place a shortcut on your desktop and launch HijackThis.

Click Do a system scan and save a logfile

Most of what HijackThis lists will be harmless or even essential, don't fix anything yet.

Post the logfile that HijackThis produces along with the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware log
 
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