Have you gone through in situation when your computer refuses to boot up. And only one question running through your head “What about my software serial keys for which I spend so many bucks ? ” or a situation like you lost serial numbers and didn’t have any way to install those software’s. Its pretty easy to get in situation like above because most of people never mind keeping serial numbers safe for future use. If you every get in situation like this, you’ll only have two ways to get out of it. You can either contact the company with your purchase proof and recover the key or the worse directly opt for new license. I don’t think anyone will go for second option. But we do have third way to recover serial number stored inside registry. And that’s the time where SoftKey Revealer application comes into play.
All software’s stores their registration information into registry. But if you try to poke around it, it is very difficult to find exact entry that houses the key. Well this seems very difficult but in real case its very easy. SoftKey Revealer is an free to use software which provide easy solution to recover software serial number of installed application. It scans the computer registry and displays serial number present in it. It is not universal serial number extractor but it supports most if the popular applications which you most people use. You can find list of supported software here.
Download SoftKey Revealer, it is just few KB and comes with portable format. So no need to install, just extract the archive and it works right there. It is one screen application and looks like below snapshot.
All you have to do is click Scan button and SoftKey Revealer starts scanning process. All software serial number are displayed like in below snapshot. Even if you uninstalled an application and its serial is present inside registry that key would also be recovered. This makes pretty sure of not missing out any uninstalled application.
SoftKey Revealer also have option to export all keys to Microsoft Word. This is very helpful since most of the softwares in this line do not offer this feature. And without this feature software is nearly useless. You can save all serials into Microsoft Word file with Copy to Word option under File menu.
Apart from hard copy you can also make printed copy of all keys. I think this is best since hardcopy are easy to store in off location and no worry about computer crash.
If you have invested your money to buy softwares SoftKey Revealer should find its way into your desktop. In the catastrophic event SoftKey Revealer can become ultimate lifeline so be prepared and keep second backup of serial numbers.
Developer: Mustafa Bugra AKTAS
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