Cannot find 64 bit 7 upgrade product key

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  1. Posts : 24
    Windows 7
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    Cannot find 64 bit 7 upgrade product key


    The package I received from Microsoft is a bi-fold white cardboard envolope with a sleeve on each side of the inside of the package, one of which contains the upgrade disk. There is the usual Certificate of Authenticity sticker on the inside but none of the numbers on it are the product key. Why am I having such a hard time finding it? Or could it have been somewhere else in the package and I lost it somehow?
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  2. Posts : 9,606
    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
       #2

    trey803 said:
    The package I received from Microsoft is a bi-fold white cardboard envolope with a sleeve on each side of the inside of the package, one of which contains the upgrade disk. There is the usual Certificate of Authenticity sticker on the inside but none of the numbers on it are the product key. Why am I having such a hard time finding it? Or could it have been somewhere else in the package and I lost it somehow?

    Did they email you the key code after you ordered it ?
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  3. Posts : 9,537
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #3

    Activate Windows 7 by Phone
    You can call to activate your OS.
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  4. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #4

    The way I understand it, the upgrade key is the key of the system you are about to upgrade.
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  5. Posts : 24
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Yea I had to contact Digital River and have them re-send the order confirmation e-mail which contained the product key. I didn't realize the product key was in the e-mail and had deleted it.
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  6. Posts : 24
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    DocBrown said:
    Did they email you the key code after you ordered it ?
    Yes, but I had deleted it

    The Howling Wolves said:
    Activate Windows 7 by Phone
    You can call to activate your OS.
    You still need a valid product key to activate

    whs said:
    The way I understand it, the upgrade key is the key of the system you are about to upgrade.
    I thought this also, but this is not the case. The upgrade has its own product key
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  7. Posts : 9,606
    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
       #7

    trey803 said:
    Yea I had to contact Digital River and have them re-send the order confirmation e-mail which contained the product key. I didn't realize the product key was in the e-mail and had deleted it.

    Print out Two (2) copies & keep one in an extra safe place
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  8. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #8

    trey,
    download, run Belarc Security Advisor which will show you your key.

    Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit
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  9. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #9

    karlsnooks said:
    trey,
    download, run Belarc Security Advisor which will show you your key.

    Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit
    Just curious here, but wouldn't you have to have the key already entered to be able to see it with this?
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  10. Posts : 9,537
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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    derekimo said:
    karlsnooks said:
    trey,
    download, run Belarc Security Advisor which will show you your key.

    Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit
    Just curious here, but wouldn't you have to have the key already entered to be able to see it with this?

    Derek,
    That's what I was thinking. It doesn't add up IMO!
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