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How to Find Your Windows 10 Product Key Using the Command Prompt

How to Find Your Windows 10 Product Key Using the Command Prompt

If you’re looking for your Windows 10 product key, you can find it by entering a quick command in the Command Prompt. Here’s how—plus a neat little trick for finding the product key using a Windows Registry method.

Find Your Windows 10 Product Key Using the Command Prompt

To find your Windows 10 product key using the Command Prompt, you’ll need to open the command line application with administrative privileges. To do this, type “cmd” in the Windows search bar.

Command Prompt will appear in the search results. Right-click it and select “Run As Administrator” from the window that appears. If prompted, enter your Windows account password.

Once open, copy and paste the following command and then hit the Enter key:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

The 25-digit product key will then appear.

That’s all there is to it. This way is quick, but this isn’t likely a code you’ll remember very easily. If you’d like a faster way of accessing your product key in the future, you can use the Windows Registry method instead.

Find Your Windows 10 Product Key Using a Windows Registry Method

The Windows Registry tip was initially posted by a user (whose account is no longer active) in the Microsoft forum.

First, open Notepad by right-clicking anywhere on the desktop, hovering over “New,” and then selecting “Text Document” from the menu.

Copy and paste this code into Notepad:

Set WshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead(“HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId”))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)

Const KeyOffset = 52

i = 28

Chars = “BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789”

Do

Cur = 0

x = 14

Do

Cur = Cur * 256

Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur

Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255

Cur = Cur Mod 24

x = x -1

Loop While x >= 0

i = i -1

KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput

If (((29 – i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then

i = i -1

KeyOutput = “-” & KeyOutput

End If

Loop While i >= 0

ConvertToKey = KeyOutput

End Function

Next, click the “File” tab and select “Save As.”

In File Explorer, set the “Save As Type” dropdown to “All Files” and give your file a name. You can use any name, but it has to be a .vbs file. You can name it something like: productkey.vbs

Once you’ve entered a file name, save the file.

You can now view your Windows 10 product key at any time by opening the new file.

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How to set up Google Authenticator for a Gmail account

How to set up Google Authenticator for a Gmail account

Two factor authentication is normally set up with a phone number. When you sign in to an account secured with 2FA, a code is sent to your phone and the code needs to be entered on the sign in page in order to get into the account. The only problem is that if someone really wants to get into your account, a phone number isn’t the best tool to use to secure it. You can use alternative methods for 2FA. If you’re using it for Gmail, you can use the Google Authenticator app. Here’s how to set it up for a Gmail account.

Google Authenticator for Gmail

First, you need to install the Google Authenticator app on your phone. You can get it for iOS from here, and for Android here. In order to set up Google Authenticator for a Gmail account, you must have a phone number set up with your account. If you do not have a phone number set up with your account, click the ‘Add a mobile phone number’ option and set it up. Google will walk you through the process but you must have the phone on-hand.

Once you’ve set up Two Factor Authentication, scroll down the Two Factor authentication page and click ‘Set Up’ under Authenticator app.

The web page will show you a QR code. Switch over to your phone.

Open the Google Authenticator app and tap the plus button at the top. In the menu that opens, tap the ‘Scan barcode’ option and then scan the code on the web page.

The web page will ask you to enter the code shown in the app. Enter it and the set up will be complete.

How it works

When you sign into your Gmail account, you will have to enter the password for it, and then the code from the Google Authenticator app.

 

The code expires within a minute so if you see the number turn red, it means it’s about to expire. You must enter it before it expires. If it expires, you will get a new code. The old one won’t work. Use the new one, and then complete signing in.

If you ever need to remove the app, you can return to the Two Factor Authentication page, and click the Remove button under the Google Authenticator app. Your phone number will still be associated with your account and a code will be sent to it when you next sign it. It will have to be removed separately.

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Cum să adăugați numere de diapozitive în PowerPoint

Atunci când aratati o prezentare PowerPoint, poate fi ușor să pierdeți evidența pe ce diapozitiv accesați în prezent – mai ales dacă este una mare. Pentru a vă ajuta, puteți adăuga numere de diapozitive în PowerPoint pentru a vă cunoaște poziția.

Desigur, puteți adăuga numere de diapozitive manual la fiecare diapozitiv folosind casetele de text. Aceasta nu este o opțiune pe care am recomanda-o, deoarece orice modificare pe care o faceți (de exemplu, prin adăugarea de noi diapozitive) ar necesita să vă actualizați manual numerele de diapozitive.

În schimb, puteți adăuga numere de diapozitive care se actualizează automat pe toate diapozitivele dvs., inclusiv pe toate lamelele ascunse. În mod implicit, aceste numere de diapozitive vor apărea în subsolul dvs. de diapozitive, dar puteți muta și formata numerele de diapozitive editând „Slide Master” pentru prezentarea dvs.

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