{"id":433,"date":"2009-09-12T17:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T10:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tom.ji42.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:40:04","slug":"default-keys-for-vista-and-windows-7-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Default Keys for Vista and Windows 7 deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To go along with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cluberti.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/mdt-2010-and-deployment-from-a-usb-key\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous post<\/a> on deploying Windows via MDT 2010, here is a list of the \u201cdefault\u201d keys that Windows uses when you choose not to enter a product key during setup.&nbsp; These keys of course will not activate, but you can enter them into your task sequences when you are prompted for a product key to use.&nbsp; This will make your setup more unattended.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the list:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Windows Vista:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ultimate&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; VMCB9-FDRV6-6CDQM-RV23K-RP8F7<\/li>\n<li>Business&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; 4D2XH-PRBMM-8Q22B-K8BM3-MRW4W<\/li>\n<li>Home Premium&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; X9HTF-MKJQQ-XK376-TJ7T4-76PKF<\/li>\n<li>Home Basic&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; RCG7P-TX42D-HM8FM-TCFCW-3V4VD<\/li>\n<li>Starter&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; X9PYV-YBQRV-9BXWV-TQDMK-QDWK4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Windows 7:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ultimate&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; D4F6K-QK3RD-TMVMJ-BBMRX-3MBMV<\/li>\n<li>Professional&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; HYF8J-CVRMY-CM74G-RPHKF-PW487<\/li>\n<li>Home Premium&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; RHPQ2-RMFJH-74XYM-BH4JX-XM76F<\/li>\n<li>Home Basic&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; YGFVB-QTFXQ-3H233-PTWTJ-YRYRV<\/li>\n<li>Starter&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp; 7Q28W-FT9PC-CMMYT-WHMY2-89M6G<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that these were easy to acquire \u2013 simply install Windows Vista or Windows 7 without a product key, and then run a utility in the OS to display the current product key.&nbsp; I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msfn.org\/board\/index.php?s=&amp;showtopic=129488&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=859688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GetKey<\/a> written by GunSmokingMan on the MSFN forums, but anything that\u2019ll run in Vista or Windows 7 will work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To go along with my previous post on deploying Windows via MDT 2010, here is a list of the \u201cdefault\u201d keys that Windows uses when you choose not to enter a product key during setup.&nbsp; These keys of course will not activate, but you can enter them into your task sequences when you are prompted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cOVM-6Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24322,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/24322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.tomwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}