get productid from Win8

[ahso]

Hi
how to get the productid as:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=28175

but from win8.1 not xp? Can't find it and importing the reg failed.
Thanks

[dimesio]

That's not really a Wine question. You might want to ask on the app's support forum where it stores the productid in Windows 8.1.

[oiaohm]

ahso try bogus. Microsoft provides a nice list of invalid.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326904
The first 5 numbers can be aquired from here.
http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Product_IDs

Yes wine does not have Windows genuine advantage so we can use the product ids Microsoft rejects.

Some cases anystring in productid is enough. I have had one program very happy accept \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductId set as string getlost

ahso please run a few tests.
1)Using straight up bogus like "getlost".
2)correctly formated but invalid. Microsoft did publish these.

If straight up bogus or invalid work send update to appdb.

[ahso]

if you read my link you see that I wonder where the UNITY productid went.

[oiaohm]

ahso its not unity productid Its windows productid. Stupid enough windows productid is not meant to be used the way unity is.

ahso support people we don't always read links. You would have been better to have stated need value for \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductId by appdb link

I read more of that appdb page as well.
12345-oem-0000001-54321 OS productid will work and is official Wine OS productid.

ahso feel like submiting a wine bug. HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductId does not exist and should exist with value same as HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductId that does exist by default. This is a nice small patch to the wine defaults.

Yes ahso you techically should not be taking productid from a windows machine unless there is no other choice.

I myself had forgot about the offical wine product key.