Any suggestions on how I can recover the CD Key for Microsoft Halo PC game. I bought the game for my son for Christmas. He affixed the label to the laptop for safekeeping and it has now faded. We don't have a problem with the game now, but my daughter's laptop recently crashed and I know all too well of the problems that are incurred without the original CDs and product keys. I am trying to create a file of all our software product keys for future emergencies. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks!

Is the laptop usable at all?
If so i can install my copy and see if i can find a registry key with the cd key in it.

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

Yes. My son's computer is fine. My daughter's crashed and I just got it back up and working, but some of the original stuff was lost because we no longer had the original cds or cases. I can't even find the proper driver for her modem because gateway doesn't have the correct download on their site. I am just trying to take precautionary measures in case I run into a similar situation with my son's. I downloaded produkey from this site, but it only gives me XP and Office product keys. I was hoping to find a similar utility that will read the product keys for other software. I found a site that listed a utility as a free download, but it only gives the partial key unless I purchase the full registered version. I called Microsoft and they want to charge half of what I paid for the game. What a rip-off! Anyway enough with my rambling. Any assistance is appreciated. Thanks!

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo
value name is PID, but this is only the product ID.
After googling a little, i did find this though:
source: Halo

*this will only work if you already had a valid cd key, so no such luck for the scammers out there

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

Whats a hex character

hex is a number in base 16, similar to binary which is base 2 or octal which is base 8.

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-William. § (marvin_gohan)

William has already solved up the problem.

You need to run regedit to access the registries .

Go to Start --> Run --> Regedit

Then follow the process by William

DOwnload this:
[App] Halo CD Key Recovery Tool - Halo 2 Vista Forums

ii have saved the reg and launch it on a notepad and it came out like this and i cant find the hexs after the word digitalproductid.

this is the result when i open the exported the halo reg=

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo]
"Zone"="http://www.zone.com/asp/script/default.asp?Game=Halo&password=Password"
"DistID"=dword:0000035c
"Version"="1.07"
"Launched"="1"
"PID"=""
"DigitalProductID"=hex:
"EXE Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Games\\Halo"
"CDPath"="C:\\DOCUME~1\\AYAH\\Desktop\\HALOCO~ 1\\"
"VersionType"="RetailVersion"
"InstalledGroup"="1"
"LangID"=dword:00000009
"CheckAccess"="1"
"PendingVersion"=""
@=""



pls help me!

ooh never mind about the message above because i have successfully save the thing but what do i have to copy from the below?

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Halo]
"Zone"="http://www.zone.com/asp/script/default.asp?Game=Halo&password=Password"
"DistID"=dword:0000035c
"Version"="1.07"
"Launched"="1"
"PID"=""
"DigitalProductID"=hex:
"EXE Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Games\\Halo"
"CDPath"="C:\\DOCUME~1\\AYAH\\Desktop\\HALOCO~ 1\\"
"VersionType"="RetailVersion"
"InstalledGroup"="1"
"LangID"=dword:00000009
"CheckAccess"="1"
"PendingVersion"=""
@=""




i have read the instruction but the digitalproductid have nothing!

please help me!!