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If you are reading this post then you may have already upgraded to Windows 10 taking Microsoft’s free upgrade offer and still want to know your original Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 Product Key for some reason. Windows 10 doesn’t have concept of a Windows Product Key for activation and rather uses a generic Product Key that just signifies a particular Windows Edition like Home, Pro etc. If your windows was activated prior to upgrade, you will get a Digital Entitlement to the Windows 10, but in case if you revert to Windows 8.1 / Windows 7 and want to do a clean install of Windows 10 you may again need to use the original Product Key. There may be other scenarios too. Windows 10 Versions 1511 (November update) also allows to activate Windows using original Product Key.So, in this tutorial, we will tell you how to find the Original Windows 8.1 / Windows 7 Product Key that your PC shipped with before upgrading to Windows 10. ShowKeyPlus is an utility / software tool that is easy to use and provides you with original key and also let you save in a text file.Steps:Download the ShowKeyPlus latest version (1.0.5835) zip folder from here (Dev link) or here (Mediafire link)Open the Zip folder and extract all to a folderNow run the first file (ShowKeyPlus with Key icon)It will provide you with the original Product Key before upgrading to Windows 10. It will also tell you the key OEM shipped your PC with. Generally both will be same but in case you changed Product Key years after buying your PC you may get two different keys.It will also tell you the Windows 8.1 / Windows 7 versions your PC shipped with and the version of Windows 10 you are running now.You can save the Product Key and other info shown by ShowKeyPlus as a text file by clicking on save.

The option labelled Check product key.Step 3: Enter or paste the product key that you want to know the version and edition of Windows the product key belongs to. The version and edition of Windows operating will be displayed just below the product key field.Ultimate PID CheckerUltimate PID Checker is another free tool out there to determine the version and edition of Windows a product key belongs to.Ultimate PID is not as superior as ShowKeyPlus, as Ultimate PID Checker requires you select a version of Windows to know the edition, unlike ShowKeyPlus which easily displays both version and edition upon entering a product key. That is, with Ultimate PID Checker, you might need to do trial and error to know the version of Windows operating system a product key belongs to.Step 1: Download Ultimate PID Checker from here, extract the RAR file either using 7-Zip or WinRAR, and then run the executable.Step 2: Select the version of Windows operating system that you believe the product key belongs to, enter the product key, and then click Go button to know the edition of the product key.If the product key entered doesn’t belong to the selected version of Windows, you will not see the edition it belongs to. Ryan toby. In that case, select another version of Windows, and then click Go button again.A copy of Windows is genuine only if it has been activated using a valid key. When you buy Windows Keys from Microsoft websites or get them from the OEMs, you can be sure that they are genuine. But you need to be careful if you buy them from third-party websites. So are Windows 10 keys that you buy from another site like Amazon, etc., legitimate or legal? That depends!The major problem why many consumers get a license –

Keys, and especially, if you are not sure if they belong to Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10.If I have misunderstood the issue, please let me know.How did you uninstall Internet Explorer?Please refer to the suggestions from the following link and check if they help you fix the issue.What to do when Internet Explorer isn't workingReset Internet Explorer disclaimer: The Reset Internet Explorer Settings feature might reset security settings or privacy settings that you added to the list of Trusted Sites. Hi Mayank,From your recent reply, I understand that Internet Explorer fails to open webpages and showing error messages, so you want to uninstall it from the computer. Uninstall internet explorer 11 windows 7.That said, if you know that a particular key is for Windows 10, then you can determine the edition of Windows 10 the key belongs to by entering it on a PC running Windows 10 as there are only two editions: Home and Pro. Once the job is done, you can uninstall and deactivate the key if you wish to do so.Determine the version and edition of a product keyLuckily, there are a couple of ways out there to easily determine the version and edition of Windows a product key belongs to. You can use one of the given below utilities to check version and edition of Windows you can activate using the product key.ShowKeyPlusShowKeyPlus is a free software designed to retrieve product key from registry, BIOS/UEFI, and Windows.old folder. In addition to that, the tool can be used check the version and edition of Windows a product key belongs to.Here is how to use the ShowKeyPlus software:Step 1: Visit this page, download the latest available version, extract the zip file to get ShowKeyPlus.exe file, and then run ShowKeyPlus.exe with admin rights.Step 2: Once launched, click