Name: Keyfinder
(Originally maintianed by Magical Jelly Bean Software.)
Category: Utilities
Description: Keyfinder is a utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows and othre software from your registry. It has the options to copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print it for safekeeping. It works on a wide range of software, including all major Microsoft titles. A complete list of added software is available HERE.
License: GPL
Download Keyfinder Portable 2.1 Development Test 6
(MD5:ba106bd1018852a4917f8846a9f887c1) [623 Kb Download | 1.98 Mb Installed]
Release Notes:
Development Test 6 (2008-5-26)
- Keyfinder updated to 2.1 by Stephen Warren (swarren08)
- Font settings will successfully import back into the registry and are remembered
- Launcher updated
- Updated 16px icon format
- Updated cfg
Development Test 5 (2008-4-16)
- Updated launcher to fix registry settings
Development Test 4 (2008-4-9)
- Updated launcher to fix cfg settings
Development Test 3 (2008-4-7)
- Used an improper method to copy cfg settings
- Updated icon
- Updated ini
Development Test 2 (2008-4-4)
- Added a help file
- Updated copyrights, websites, etc in launcher and ini
- Added readme, license, appsource.txt
- Fixed 'LaunchandExit' bug
Development Test 1 (2008-4-4)(Initial Release)
Previous dicussion thread can be found HERE
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Im going to take the splash screen off for the portable apps version, that ok?
Stephen A. Warren
That sounds good to me, two splashes seems a bit redundant.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
So, im going to make a portable apps version without the splash screen and ill put the link on my site. you'll set it cause it will say portable apps by it or something or another
Stephen A. Warren
BTW, I think you should be keeping the splash up longer, I could barely see it when it loaded on my PC. Nice work on this.
see.... about that.... I still cant figure that out..... Im working on it though. got any idea how?
Edit: its up Brian
Stephen A. Warren
*tinker* tested
Flagging an app as 'tested' is not very useful as long as you don't deliver the results of your tests.
We'd pretty much assume that if no problems are reported and an app is tested than there's no problems encountered...
though it might be helpful to know _WHAT_ was tested and worked?
/sylikc
Well, it works well on my computer, no problems
If it works well doesn't really clarify anything. Did you try it on a different comp? Did it leave any settings behind? Did the installer work properly those are all things that were working for. Just because it seems to work okay doesn't mean it's working perfectly. On you next test please try to give a little more information about how you tested and what the results were. No offence but the statement *Tinker Tested* really isn't of much use.
Release Team Member
I checked out the Other\Source\Readme.txt and saw..
The Keyfinder Portable Launcher allows you to run Task Coach from a removable drive...
I don't know if it should say that.
I'm going to try it on some other computers when I have time...
LOL no it shouldn't say that. That's the kind of stuff that needs to be reported and if it leaves anything behind registry or otherwise. That kind of stuff. And testing on more than one computer is definately a pain so a better alternative if you want is a virtual machine. My favorite is this one. It's open source and all that good stuff. So you can test on more than one machine without changing desks. Thanks for testing!
Release Team Member
Jacob,
You're right, I forget that we are more interested in how it works in the PortableApps format than the program working. I often forget that when testing. I'll remember to report those results next time I test an app too!
Thanks,
/sylikc
It's always appreciated when people test the apps. It's good to do a little testing on the main app and if there are errors to report them to their maker. Just remember most of us didn't make the apps we just made the launchers so we have no control of any of the actual program's bugs. Thanks for testing the apps.
Release Team Member
I tried this out on my work computer (Windows XP SP3) and my laptop (also WinXP SP3) and it works flawlessly as far as I can tell, but I don't know where to look to see if it leaves anything behind. Any help in that area would be greatly appreciated. I use a lot of these Beta programs (some every day) and can let you know if the programs themselves perform properly. I'd like to be a little more help than that if I can though.
Well guys i hope u enjoy the program... its definitely been fun making it... There will be a new version of the program out here in about a week or so...
This version will have several new serial keys and will also decrypt Adobe cs2 serial keys...
We try to be %100 accurate...
Stephen A. Warren
Just did a search for this and well here it is : ) Is development still active or is anyone likely to take it up?
PortableApps.com Advocate
How would I go about monitoring the files this program writes to, to see if it leaves anything behind? I tried using Process Monitor and filtering for keyfinder and the CreateFile access, except CreateFile also seems to include read access as I get many entries for system files. Googling for methods of seeing what a program writes to doesn't turn up much other than Process Monitor and the old File Mon, and going through the code line by line for file operations.
EDIT: The only files I know it creates for sure are prefetch files, but I don't know if you can prevent windows from creating those.
I Am Using Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 And It shows the serial and other apps i have installed on the pc
I have tried this on a Vista Business (Sp1) as well as a XP Pro (Sp3).
I am not able to get it to launch from the PortableApps menu.
I can get it to launch if I explore to the drive into the PortableApps\KeyFinderPortable\ folder.
Change/edit the control section of the file KeyfinderPortable\App\Appinfo\appinfo.ini:
Edit: Oh, and welcome here at PortableApps.com
Thank you Bart.S that worked perfect.
(and Thanks for the greeting, I am extremely impressed by this project.)
You're welcome!
just a note, this keyfinder won't work for windows 7 or office 10 keys to be recovered.
An alternative I found for portable use is this one:
http://www.klinzmann.name/licensecrawler.htm
I've taken over this project due to inactivity. My thread can be found here.
Though, MJB Keyfinder has been forked and I will instead be updating Enchanted Keyfinder when it has its first release.
I checked out the SourceForge link you had posted and found out there is a new release (0.20) of Enchanted Keyfinder.
One thing I always liked about the Keyfinder was the ability to add programs to the cfg file and get their serial numbers.
As far as I can see, the latest "release" is still 2.0.8 which is the version of the original program that they picked up.
Must be tired eyes...I looked at 2.0.8 and read it as 0.20.
Sorry for the confusion.
I took over the open source keyfinder project on sourceforge.
Currently the keyfinder is completely portable with all settings saved in an INI file.
I don't know if anyone has plans of turning it into a portable app but now it is more than possible.
No registry entries at all.
http://sf.net/projects/keyfinder
SAM
What's a signature?
I took over the portable package of this (here), and I was actually waiting for you to make a release under the new name. I'll update my package tonight or tomorrow. Thank you for posting, by the way.