Thoughts: Belarc Advisor is FREE, updated fairly regularly, is far more detailed, and found 47 keys from 46 programs. Still missed a few but it also gave me registration dates (useful for renewing deals/discounts), detailed system information (picked up a custom motherboard, and what’s on it), and even revision details. it also links directly to Belarc for “more information” on problems, tells you EXACTLY what updates are missing, informs about patches, new drivers, and security fixes…. It’s not perfect, but Belarc Advisor still is the strongest of these programs.

Try Belarc Adviser or aida32 for free and no spyware either.

If you know your way around Regedit, you can display all of the columns (although generally unavailable, there’s something in every column on my PC). Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Recover Keys\GridSettings\TreeList.TreeList. You’ll see a TreeList key for each column, change the value Visible to “True”. I haven’t checked all of the Internet access, but it appears to just be related to updates.

I keep software keys in Sticky Password, it can fill out application windows. If it can’t fill out the fields, I put them in the corresponding Comment field.

@36
2009 looks set to be another bumper year for freeware, abandonware and commercially available software that’s being given away temporarily for free for whatever reason, usually because of some celebration like Christmas, or maybe when a new version has been released. (well, that’s perfectly fine with me, I’ve been looking for these offers and some are extrordinany.). I’m a huge fan of freeware and open source and many of them perform more functions and features than expensive commercial programs. By the way all regular vistors here obviously realize that GOAD is basically giving out-dated or older versions of developers software. Or re-runs as pointed out by @53

@57
AccessdData software does not have any keys, it uses the USB dongle and connects to their site for verification

@70,
“(It was really easy to accomplish as all you had to do is sent him an exported registry hive for the programs section of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER & HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; (accessible from the ‘RUN command via the Start menu, when typing in ‘Regedit – that opens up the registry editor).”

Do you have any idea what information is in those keys ( You just sent him your personal information, name ,address, email among hundreds of others detailed imformation. That was a very foolish thing to do

Finally, mine own opinion:
It located only 13 keys, 10 of which were Cyberlink products. It identified Microsft Internet Explorer. I don’t recall even having to put in a serial number to install a free browser. The change license key is a joke, when a program starts up, it looks for that key for validation. If you change it, the program will popup a warning or state….Now running in Demo Mode.

As for the keys found, I copied the cell, opened regedit and found each and ever one of them in human readable form, except for Microsoft Works. Most developers now use diffent methods for protecting their keys and will never be discoveable using this program. Why, even I who only had one course in Visual Basic, could simple install hundreds of programs, capture the key by using a registry trace program and build a database much larger than he provides. Again, you’ll notice that this is the only product for sale on the entire website, unlike most developers who enjoy creating new programs

There are a few key finder programs on the Internet, I said few because they are relatively useless as is this program.

KISS…just write or copy the serial number into a text editor, and open it up everytime you receive a key, paste it in and save the file.

Also there is a setting to have it check for new scripts ever X number of days (default 3). This DOES work and so there’s the chance that programs it picks up now can be picked up later.

I agree, it doesn’t pick up Adobe CS4 programs although it did find older, pre-CS ones. It picked up all my EA games, including Sims 2 game and add-ons. It picked up a couple of screensavers, but not the Astro-Gemini ones.

It did not pick up Black Obelisk’s Liquid Story Binder XE, Magic Score, Mojosoft’s BusinessCardsMX3, and several of the smaller DVD, video programs. Some of these were GGOTD programs, but I don’t think that’s why they didn’t show up. It seems in most of the cases it looks for programs that are most popular (like EA), but misses the smaller, lesser known ones. I don’t know if the scan searches out specific programs by name–it seems that may be what it does.