{"id":1122,"date":"2017-01-06T17:55:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2017-01-06T13:58:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T13:58:56","slug":"recover-a-lost-product-key-from-a-microsoft-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/recover-a-lost-product-key-from-a-microsoft-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover a lost product key from a Microsoft Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if like me you find yourself rebuilding your MS Surface but also forget to take note of the Windows product key, the good news MS bakes it into the BIOS. After a bit of digging in WMI it seems its easily accessible, the easiest way is to run the following from the command prompt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then just paste the result into the activation window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to recover the Windows product key from your Microsoft surface&#8217;s BIOS firmware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms","category-tech","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}