If you want to setup your computer system again you need to have the licenses and serial numbers at hand for all the software programs that you have purchased and registered. This does include the Windows product key but also other serial numbers for applications like Nero, Office, VMWare and pretty much every other application.
Instead of searching for the keys in your emails, manuals and recipes you could use another approach. License Crawler is a sweet little application that scans the Windows Registry for Windows product keys and other serial numbers and licenses.
The License Crawler can discover application product keys and other serial numbers or licenses very quickly and supports all versions of Windows operating system from Windows 95 to Windows Vista.
It is a portable application that can be run from any location and would be a perfect fit for an USB stick. Asking clients to find serial and license keys is often very frustrating. Instead, tech support can simply run License Crawler without having to interact with the client at all.
This program will help get information about the license key applications that are installed on your computer. You forgot to write down the serial number, or simply lost the paper where you recorded it? The program will analyze your computer and return you all the serial numbers with a single mouse click.
Despite its free of charge, the program is very good serial numbers, coping with some applications, the serial numbers which can not identify even a few commercial tools. The user can specify which areas of the registry program will search for license information. With this program you can find the serial number and the remote computer. Program has a special module that encrypts the report. You can set filters defined by serial numbers