Product Key Finder

Pros

• Free program
• No installation needed
• Runs quickly and smoothly

Cons

• Doesn’t always find all programs
• Simplistic feature set
• You can’t configure or organize with the program

If you have ever installed a program but lost the case or the serial key, then you already know how much a program like Product Key Finder can come in handy by helping you locate the serial key to save the day.

What Product Key Finder Does

Purchasing certain types of software, whether at a store like Best Buy or via a website, can be rather expensive. This leads to pirating, serial hacking, and a slew of over unsavory practices that cause software manufacturers to become sticklers about their product keys. So when you go to install or update a program on your computer but can’t find the key, your hands are basically tied without a way to get your original key. Someone else’s key probably won’t work, and even if it does it may be cancelled when the company finds out about key-sharing. Product Key Finder helps you to locate the serial keys to products you already have on your PC.

A free program developed by Dave Hope, and coming in at a lightweight 941 KB, Product Key Finder does not even need to be installed on your computer. You can simply download the product from the link and start the program to find a range of serial keys for your installed products. This works with products you have installed via disk or via the Internet.

Features of Product Key Finder

The best feature of Product Key Finder is the no-muss, no-fuss way it operates. After it’s downloaded, anyone can figure out what to do next. All you have to do is run the program. Say, for example, you have the disk for Microsoft Office but don’t have the case with the serial key. You want to install this program on another computer, but it’s useless without the key. In the few seconds it takes to download and run Product Key Finder, you will receive the key to the program and won’t have to search for pirated keys.

Product Key Finder will go through your PC and find most of your products along with their respective keys. If you wish, you can save these in a CSV file and then transfer them to Paint or Word (or a similar program) for formatting or printing, or you can print the screen.

The product is simplistic, so it does not do anything else besides finding the keys. There are not any organizational or customizable tools here. This can be a good thing, or perhaps you want a program that does more. There are also some programs that Product Key Finder doesn’t locate. On a quick personal scan, the program didn’t find the key for Camtasia Studio or WinX HD Video Converter on the first run. Upon a second run however, these products were found.

Pros

• Free program
• No installation needed
• Runs quickly and smoothly

Cons

• Doesn’t always find all programs
• Simplistic feature set
• You can’t configure or organize with the program