![]() Extract your key from Microsoft Windows or Office That said, major upgrades like swapping out your motherboard are almost certainly guaranteed to require a call to Microsoft for activation. Otherwise, you might be putting in a call to Microsoft’s robo-activation line. It would be better, for example, to do the HDD to SSD swap first, reinstall Windows 10, and once it’s activated take care of the other component upgrades. This is a rare issue, but it’s something to keep in mind if you are planning on swapping out your hard drive or SSD and hope to do some other upgrades at the same time. If you change too many components at once and then try to reinstall Windows 10 you may run into problems. The one thing to keep in mind is that your digital entitlement is based around your system configuration. Instead, after the reinstall Windows will activate seamlessly in the background within a few hours (or at worst a few days). If you ever need to do a fresh install from a USB drive, for example, you will not have to activate your PC. The good thing about this system is there’s no product key to lose. ![]() If your PC has a digital entitlement, Microsoft keeps a record of your right to run Windows 10 on its servers. ![]() I am sincerely hoping that the other guys on the Microsoft Forums sent me in the right direction here that pesky Key Code for Office 2013 has got to be stored somewhere accessible (it's not on any Microsoft server that is accessible by us end-users, that's for sure) and there's got to be some program or methodology around out there to recover and decode the thing so it can be reentered when the program is reinstalled.If, however, you obtained Windows 10 by buying a new PC, buying a Windows 10 installation DVD, or buying a digital copy of Windows 10 from a retailer that’s not the Windows Store then you have a traditional product key, not a digital entitlement. Hopefully a MS employee or some other Office Expert can provide some concrete, step-by-step information on how to do this. I simply can't believe that Microsoft did not make some provision for backing up and then restoring a particular "token" file with the necessary info in it or extracting the necessary Key Code so that Office could be re-installed under the current scenario. I've also tried out all of the other "key finder" programs suggested in countless other articles and none of them can find the Key in Office Home & Business 2013, nor have I been able to do so by hacking / searching the Registry. Per this Microsoft article and the Belarc program I can (and subsequently have) found the last 5 characters of the Key but that's not going to do me any good after the re-install unless I have the rest of them. Not only is this the Dell OEM version but I've already had to go through Microsoft once to obtain a new (replacement) Product Key due to an earlier problem and since it's the OEM version there's no record of it on the Microsoft "My Account / Office Products" page apparently if you didn't purchase the Retail version, the Product Key is not recorded there (but it is fully registered and functioning, of course). I've managed to get the Windows 10 Pro Product Key using the latest version of Belarc Advisor but I'm hitting a brick wall on my installation of Office Home & Business 2013. I've read myself almost blind over the last 3 days and many hours now and I still can't come up with a definitive answer so I'll restate the question: How do I either back-up the Office Home & Business 2013 "activation file" (or token) or discover and extract the complete Product Key for it? After I upgraded my Windows 8.1 Professional (32-bit) Dell to Win 10 Pro I've been having horrible crash problems it's obvious that I'm going to have to reformat and start from scratch. My original post is copied and pasted below. Disclaimer: I've posted this on several Microsoft "Community Support Sites" and though I have yet to have an actual Microsoft tech support guy address the question, several "MVPs" have, but nobody has yet come up with a totally workable answer, although they have tried. One of the guys who posted something (after I showed him proof that there is such a thing as a Dell OEM-supplied version of MS Office 2013 Home & Business - he originally thought there was no such animal) was that I should "go back to Dell and ask them" so here I am.
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