recovering lost XP product Key

I'm sure many of you who use XP as an operating system have at some point for whatever reason need to reinstalling the OS.

Chances are some of you might have already lost the product key, fret not, this link will teach you how to extract you CD key from the file ntuser.dat. This seems like a more secure way of making sure you keep your CD key to yourself.

Those step might be a little confusing for you folks that have little idea about registry editing.

let me know if you need help.