Quote Originally Posted by EDZIP View Post
For the heck of it did you try one of those free product key recovery apps? Used them to recovery license numbers before reloading the OS.
What do those apps actually do? I did use something to look up the key in the registry while I was online with MS. The way I understand it, Microsoft has deactivated my product key so it's no longer usable, but not sure. I tried to re-upgrade to Win 10 and it wouldn't even let me do that. I just swapped out the PC with a spare, so I'll be able to try to wipe and re-install Win 7. If that doesn't work, I'll probably just go back to XP on that one.