How to find Windows 10 Product Key

Windows product key is a 25-character code used to activate Windows. It looks like this:
PRODUCT KEY: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Free upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, you should have digital license instead of a product key. 

How to check if Windows is activated

Right Click on Windows Logo (Bottom Left corner of the screen) then click on System, click on Change product key or upgrade your edition of Windows

Or

Type “Activation” into Windows 10 desktop search then click on Activation Setting shortcut

 

Activation: Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account 

Command Prompt 

Type “cmd” in windows 10 desktop search box then right click the Command Prompt shortcut and click on run as administrator copy and paste the following command in to command prompt and press Enter

 

wmic path softwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

You should see the key on screen below the line that says "OA3XOriginalProductKey." If not, this method didn't work but you can try another one.

Registry File

Windows 10 product key should be located in windows registry

Type “regedit” into Windows 10 desktop search then click on Registry Editor shortcut

OR

Press windows key + R to open the run dialog, Type “regedit” and click OK navigate to

 

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform

 

BackupProductKeyDefault is your Product key

 

Alternatively, you can also create a script to view the product key

Type “notepad” into Windows 10 desktop search then click on Notepad shortcut

 

Copy and paste the following into Notepad:

 

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId")) 8 Function ConvertToKey(Key) Const KeyOffset = 52 i = 28 Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789" Do Cur = 0 x = 14 Do Cur = Cur * 256 Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255 Cur = Cur Mod 24 x = x -1 Loop While x >= 0 i = i -1 KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then i = i -1 KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput End If Loop While i >= 0 ConvertToKey = KeyOutput End Function

 

Press Ctrl + S to save the file, use any name but the extension has to be a .vbs, then click on save, close Notepad and open the new file that was just saved to view the windows product key. 

PowerShell 

Right Click on Windows Logo (Bottom Left corner of the screen) then click on Windows PowerShell (Admin), copy and paste the following command in to PowerShell and press enter

 

powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey"