Windows – How to get the product key of Windows 8.1 preinstalled in Dell Pro Venue Tab

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I want to upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 in my Dell pro venue tab. When upgrading, it was asking for the product key. How to find the product key for Windows as well as Office in tab?

Best Answer

I always use Nirsoft's Produkey for this. Most reliable toolset for all sorts of such simple things. Highly recommended.

Nirsoft Productkey

ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of Microsoft Office (Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007), Windows (Including Windows 7 and Windows Vista), Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your computer.

Supported Products List

Microsoft Windows 98/ME Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows NT Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft - Windows 7 (Doesn't work with Microsoft Volume Licensing) - Microsoft Windows 8 (Doesn't work with Microsoft Volume Licensing)

This is the answer you needed. For things beyond the original question, the following may help in addition to Fleet Commands's answer.

Regarding upgrading to or installing Windows 10, you might be better served with Fleet Command's answer and digging into this in more detail on Windows 10 upgrade specific forums like MSFN and MyDigitalLife.

Without assuming what licenses you are using legit or not, and I am not sure SuperUser will allow/ or support your licensing upgrade path, if it is not kosher in the eyes of Microsoft. I've found every forum has their own rules regarding 'licensing' tips/ hacks to prevent conflicts with Microsoft Corp.

The answer can vary a lot depending on the original license and version you have and the Windows 10 you are upgrading to and also variation between how OEM licenses from Windows 7 will give you Windows 10 but it may be for that machine only.

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