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Questions tagged [serial-number]

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Find Key of Installed and Activated instance Adobe Acrobat Professional without using 3rd party tools

Have several copies of Acrobat Professional that were purchased previously, installed and activated. However there is no documentation of the serial numbers, the Adobe online account ID or any details for these. Need to move the licenses to upgraded…
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How to use Photoshop CS6 without an Adobe ID?

Background I have a legal Adobe Photoshop CS6 serial number. I have downloaded the Photoshop CS6 from the Adobe website. I have installed it with my legal serial number. Everything until now is fine. When I open my Photoshop CS6, it asks me to sign…
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What do the numbers on Western Digital drives mean?

There are numerous numbers on a Western Digital drive, MDL (presumably model, ex WD5000BEKT-00KA9T0) -- not sure what the 99KA9T0 is. WWN (ex 50014EE25AC8C945) DCM (ex HBNTJBBB) LBA (ex 976773168) R/N (ex 77174) Then there are three numbers on the…
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How to identify exact specifications of a HP laptop knowing its serial number?

I'm about to buy a used HP laptop. The model is known (HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3), but this model can be shipped with different CPU, RAM, SSD, screen, etc. I'd like to know what specific hardware is installed in this laptop. My motivation is…
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How can I get my Windows 7 serial key (when I have upgraded to Windows 10)?

Anyone know how I can get my Windows 7 serial key? I used to use Belarc advisor to see my Serial keys. When I use it on my newly upgraded Windows 10, it shows me a Windows 10 Professional serial key. Is this the same as my Windows 7 Professional…
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How can I know if the specified model of Intel processor is 3rd g or 4th g?

I need a quick and easy way to identify if the Intel processor in the specifications of a laptop is from the 3rd Generation or 4th generation without using software or internet. Thanks in advance.
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Does a format change the USB serial number?

I have read this question/answer and found that an USB stick could have a serial number associated with it. This is an intersting info for my project but I wish to know if a re-format of the USB stick could wipe away the serial number and generate a…
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Get Windows 10 serial key from Windows 7 serial key?

I have a laptop running Ubuntu and also have a retail copy of Windows 7 x64 and x32 Professional. Considering that Windows 10 is a free upgrade, I'm contemplating wiping Ubuntu and putting Windows 10 on it. What I do have is my Windows 7 proof of…
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duplicate hdd serial number "152D20337A0C"

What is this "152D20337A0C" "serial number" about? I keep finding disks with this "special" serial number. I have 4 of them at home alone. Serial numbers should be unique.
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Where is the serial number on T440s?

I need the machine type and serial number of my T440s. I can't find it at the bottom of the laptop. Is this normal? I remember that it was clearly visible on my old T420s.
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OSX in Virtual box SerialNumber = 0

I've got an install of OSX El Capitan running in Virtualbox for so I can test Xcode and potentialy start developing. I cant seem to log in to the app store though as it appears the serialnumber is set to 0. Is there a way of setting the serial…
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How to acquire unique hardware ID of my computer?

I'm going to send my computer for maintenance. But the services at my place have bad reputation, so I think I better be careful. I intend to write down all the hardware ID, so I can know if they change any of my hardware or not. Please tell me how…
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How identify a Virtual Hard Disk how unique in Linux?

I'm get the Hard Disk serial number with "hdparm, sdparm, /sbin/udevadm and lshw" is possible in a physical drive, but when i use the "Hyper-V" i don't have the serial number. How i can get the serial number from hard disk in this environment of…
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Getting HDD serial number

I'm trying to get the serial number of the hard disks in my PC, i.e. the number printed on a label on the hard disk itself. I found that I can do that using wmic diskdrive get serialnumber, but I see that the serial number returned has the string…
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Formatting alpha numeric cells in excel

I use excel to correlate key credentials. My keys are in this format xxxx-xx, where 'x' can be a letter or number. Is there any way to format the cells so that I don't have to type the "-" every time? and it will sort properly?
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