Windows 7 key legitimity checker

[pssraju72]

One of my friend got windows 7 key from one of the online forum. Can he use Microsoft PIDX Check or Windows 7 Product Key Checker to check legitimity of the key? If so will it only check whether key is genuine or it also validates? He doesn't want to validate key immediately on his current PC which is quite old.

Thanks

 

[gregrocker]

Your Product Key Checker link was removed for copyright infringement. Maybe it was uploading people's keys to sell them to people who then want to verify them?

The only way to check a Win7 Product Key is to attempt to activate it in an installation.

 

[devenprasad]

Your Product Key Checker link was removed for copyright infringement. Maybe it was uploading people's keys to sell them to people who then want to verify them?

The only way to check a Win7 Product Key is to attempt to activate it in an installation.

or contact microsoft

 

[logicearth]

One of my friend got windows 7 key from one of the online forum.

Then clearly it is not a legitimate key.

 

[bigmck]

One of my friend got windows 7 key from one of the online forum.

Then clearly it is not a legitimate key.

It just amazes me that people will go to a place online, buy a key for a very cheap price and wonder if there is a slim chance that the key is no good. == There is a very old saying that covers almost all purchases in life. "You Get What You Pay For".

 

[RogerR]

"You Get What You Pay For".

I think the aphorism you are looking for is, "If it seems to good to be true, it usually is."

 

[pssraju72]

Thanks all for the clarification.

 

[saeedcp]

The only way to check a Windows 7 Product Key is to attempt to activate it in an installation.

If it has been activated. Then it is legitmate?

Then clearly it is not a legitimate key.

Why? May be the seller won the key or has a technet etc subscription or was a student(win7 30$). can't he?

 

[Flatlands]

Request removed by Dwarf
Please DO NOT request for anyone to post his/her key here or elsewhere on the Forums. Thankyou.

 

[logicearth]

Why? May be the seller won the key or has a technet etc subscription or was a student(win7 30$). can't he?

You cannot resell Technet keys or the Student Discount keys.
You most certainly cannot transfer Technet keys, at all.

 

[MacGyvr]

legitimity

I tried to resist, but I can't. There is no such word as "legitimity." The proper word is "legitimacy."

 

[PeaB4YouGo]

legitimity

I tried to resist, but I can't. There is no such word as "legitimity." The proper word is "legitimacy."

Just think of how nuts you'd go, correcting grammar in a public forum... ... ... the mind wobbles!

 

[gregrocker]

legitimity

I tried to resist, but I can't. There is no such word as "legitimity." The proper word is "legitimacy."

Just think of how nuts you'd go, correcting grammar in a public forum... ... ... the mind wobbles!

Especially when half have English as second language!

It's the English speakers who can be hardest to understand.

 

[noobvious]

I tried to resist, but I can't. There is no such word as "legitimity." The proper word is "legitimacy."

Just think of how nuts you'd go, correcting grammar in a public forum... ... ... the mind wobbles!

Especially when half have English as second language!

It's the English speakers who can be hardest to understand.

Quite right... in other forums I have noticed that many European posters post with much more proper English grammar and punctuation than the people here in the States. I don't claim that mine is flawless, but I at least try. And for MacGyvr, an honorary badge.....

 

[MacGyvr]

Just think of how nuts you'd go, correcting grammar in a public forum... ... ... the mind wobbles!

Especially when half have English as second language!

It's the English speakers who can be hardest to understand.

Quite right... in other forums I have noticed that many European posters post with much more proper English grammar and punctuation than the people here in the States. I don't claim that mine is flawless, but I at least try. And for MacGyvr, an honorary badge.....

OMG, I'm so saving that for future use!

 

[apc15x]

Activation Key

Ok I have a question, I hope that this is in the right place I have 2 pc's in my house and I put Windows 7 on mine but I have decided to put it on my wife's pc so how do take the activation code of of mine and put it on hers??

 

[Flatlands]

Ok I have a question, I hope that this is in the right place I have 2 pc's in my house and I put Windows 7 on mine but I have decided to put it on my wife's pc so how do take the activation code of of mine and put it on hers??

Slightly illegal my friend, take it to Microsoft and get it done the proper way.
Now back to the grammar police

 

[Flatlands]

Request removed by Dwarf
Please DO NOT request for anyone to post his/her key here or elsewhere on the Forums. Thankyou.

Understood Dwarf, was a joke but a fool might have not understood and posted

 

[gregrocker]

Ok I have a question, I hope that this is in the right place I have 2 pc's in my house and I put Windows 7 on mine but I have decided to put it on my wife's pc so how do take the activation code of of mine and put it on hers??

If your Windows 7 is retail Upgrade or Full Version then it can migrate to the computer of your choice as often as you wish.

Remove it from the old computer and install it to the new one. Wait to activate until installed, then insert key at Computer>Properties activation link.

It will likely require a quick robocall which trades a series of numbers that deactivates it on the old hardware signature and activates it on the new one.

 

[geeksalive]

See Product Key, Product ID and license check - Microsoft Community

I was trying to use a license key from a sticker on the bottom of a laptop, which was rubbed off to the point of illegibility. I put the machine on a scanner, and scanned it at high resolution, and viewed it greatly magnified on my screen, and was able to read all but three digits. One of the three unreadable digits was either a 3 or an 8. The second was a K, R or B. The third could have been almost anything.

So I created a text file with all the possible keys, and and let "Ultimate PID Checker" analyze them. About an hour later it reported that one key was valid, and the rest were not.

The Ultimate PID Checker

What a great tool!!!