[Salamander]

I have the “Product ID” that shows up on “This PC” in the control panel.

Will that work?

I have many terabytes of space and broadband, so that’s not an issue.

I installed the Class Shell just so I can find my way around this thing without out all those stupid little idiot boxes on the desktop.

[dayglored]

Alas, the “Product ID” is not the product key code. The key code is five groups of five characters, separated by hyphens:

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

The Product ID is shorter and not five groups of five.

But if you google “windows product key code” you’ll find instructions on how to make Windows print out the key code used to activate the computer. Those are generally CMD command line instructions.

There are also programs that do it automatically for you (KeyFinder, etc.)