Find Your Windows 10 Product Key
If you’re using Windows 10, you probably have no idea what your Windows product key is because you probably upgraded from a qualifying version of Windows (Windows 7 or Windows 8.1) so you never had to enter a product key. Would you like to know how to find your Windows 10 product key without using any software other than the Windows command prompt.
Here’s how:
Press the Windows Key + X key to open the power menu. Click on Command Prompt (Admin) to open it. Copy the following command…
wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey
and paste it at the cursor in the command window and press Enter…
There your go — and that’s that!
If you cannot get the command to work, you’re either not copying and pasting the command and you’re typing it in incorrectly or you were copying formatted text from this post. I’ve changed the formatting of this post to make the command easier to copy as plain text.
You cannot get your Windows product key from Control Panel / System. That is the Windows product ID.
If you’re looking for another way to get your Windows 10 Key, go to this page and download ProduKey by Nirsoft (be sure to download the correct version – there’s a 64-bit version) or just download the version with full install/uninstall support. The download links are near the bottom of the page.
The simple way is to go to Control Panel/System and it is at the bottom of the page.
That is not your product key – that is the Windows Product ID.
Did not work for me. OA3xOriginalProductKey repeats on the next line and then all blanks.
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I didn’t get the key. I got the line that says OA3xOriginalProductKey, but there is no product key beneath that.
Same here even when I pressed enter.
Since it wouldn’t let me highlight to copy & paste the info, I finally figured out how to copy the info and paste it into a text file (for future reference when I might need it).
Would you be kind enough to tell your readers how to do so also?
Thanks!
I did as described and the result was a blank space. I tried twice with the same result.
I received “ERROR:
Description = Not found”
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
I upgraded from WINDOWS 7 PREMIUM HOME.
Thank you.
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I did as you said but it gives no number.
Did you press enter after pasteing? Mine worked fine.
Yes I pressed enter after pasting but still no number. Guess they aren’t going to answer any of us on why either.
There is no answer.We can only test the tips on 2 or 3 computers. Obviously it worked for us – you can see the screen shots. If you read the revised article you will see I’ve addressed this:
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Didn’t give the key
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I could not get the number either tried several times to do this, please help us to do this.
Same here for me as the others. Nothing appeared on the screen about windows key.
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I followed the instructions and found it worked just fine. But, having now got the key, I found I could not save it in order to keep the record thereof. I also found I could not copy and save. So I solved the issue by doing a Print Screen and saving that.
Ditto Did not work. Just went back to Windows 32 command
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Yep, same here, no product key shown. 🙁
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This didn’t work on my Windows 10. Tried it twice and didn’t come up with anything.
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Tried it in the regular command prompt and and also run it as administrator. Same result no product key either way
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i got the same thing as others. Just the blank space, no key. Any suggestions?
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Done like instructed but did not work for me. Done three time.
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Worked for me, thanks.
Glad it worked for you.
didn’t work for me ..tried twice
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worked for me, then I used the snip tool, it let me highlight in the command prompt window, saved it
as a jpg into pictures file. Then I attached the jpg image to my e-mail, sent it to my self to save.
If my pc hard down crashed, I just go to my e-mails on another computer, or cell phone and look at
the jpg, I also typed it in manually in the text field. Thanks for this tip, hope others can make it happen.
Mike S.
Thanks. Glad it worked for you, Mike.
Thank you so much for this information! I didn’t realize the only key I had was from my original qualifying version.
I followed your instructions and got my new Win 10 key with no problem. The only difference was that on my version of Win 10 the command prompt is called Windows PowerShell (Admin). So, why do they think it’s helpful to change the name from command prompt to powershell?
Once again, thank you for sharing this info. We all wouldn’t know we didn’t have the key until we needed it, and then…I don’t want to think about it. LOL
God bless you guys!
Thanks 🙂
Worked fine for me used the Control C and Control V , for both I now have the product key. You guys are awesome
Ted
Thank you!
Worked just fine for me! Thank you so much!!
Worked fine on my Widows 10. I sent this tip to Gmail to use later for my computer down stairs. Thanks as always…D.
Try right clicking on the widows symbol (start under win 7), then left click on system, it will show product ID. The program belarc advisor will show both product ID & program key.
Thank you so much for this! It works on one of my machines but not the other. The latter returned nothing. I have re-read your posts several times as some people have had the same issue and you always provide them with the ‘revised’ link but I still can’t seem to find the solution. Please can you let me know how I can find the product key on the machine where the command “wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey” returns blank?
Thank you.
All Windows systems are the same. If the command works on one and not the other, then either you’re not typing the command correctly on one or your not logged in as admin on the other, or you user account is corrupted, or you have a corruption problem or… I can’t guess why it does not work on one of your computers. The reason why we give that answer to anyone who asks how to find their Windows key is because it works.