Microsoft Provides Windows 8 Developer Preview Product Key

Most of us are testing recently released Windows 8 Developer Preview which comes with many new features and enhancements.

We told you earlier about a new “Recovery” feature found in Windows 8 which allows you to Refresh or Reset your PC. To read more about it check point 14 in following review:

[Windows 8 Review] What’s New in Windows 8 Developer Preview?

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But you might have noticed that if you try to reinstall / reset Windows 8 Developer Preview, it asks you to enter a product key. Please note that Microsoft didn’t provide any product key for Windows 8 Developer Preview. In fact it doesn’t ask for any product key to enter at the installation time.

Then what to do? Which key you should enter? Here is the answer!

Microsoft employee “Michael” @ MSDN forums provided product key for Windows 8 Developer Preview build and Server edition which can be used at the time of reinstallation or reset.

Following is Windows 8 Developer Preview product key:

6RH4V-HNTWC-JQKG8-RFR3R-36498

And following is product key for Server edition of Windows 8 Developer Preview:

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4Y8N3-H7MMW-C76VJ-YD3XV-MBDKV

Please note that the above keys will only work in Windows 8 Developer Preview and not in Beta, RC or final RTM version.

Published in: Windows 8

About the author: Vishal Gupta (also known as VG) has been awarded with Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award. He holds Masters degree in Computer Applications (MCA). He has written several tech articles for popular newspapers and magazines and has also appeared in tech shows on various TV channels.

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  1. VG i changed the registry “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RPEnabled” value to “0” to get back the windows 7 like start menu , & changed the user picture , but it also changed the new task manager to old Task Manager from windows 7 , If i reset everything using metro controller then the task manager appear with new ui , but if i change the above registry to get old start menu then task manager also goes old . Any help to keep new task manager & get old start menu with changed user picture ?

  2. Tried method two , i got old start menu with new copy/move dialogue box , but task manager is also goes to old . how to get the new task manager ?

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