Recover Keys Changelog

What's new in Recover Keys 9.0.3.168

Mar 7, 2016

8000+ software programs supported:
About 1500 new programs were added to our list of supported programs, since last version of Recover Keys.
Windows 10 ready:
Recover Keys is fully compatible with the latest version of Microsoft Windows, including recovery of Windows 10 product key. If you want to recover Windows 10 product key, please read following
If you upgraded to Windows 10 on this PC by taking advantage of the free upgrade offer and successfully activated Windows 10 on this PC in the past, you won't have a Windows 10 product key, and you can skip the product key page by selecting the Skip button. Your PC will activate online automatically so long as the same edition of Windows 10 was successfully activated on this PC by using the free Windows 10 upgrade offer
Export to SQL
MySQL, MSSQL and SQLite formats are supported
Improvements to search:
Easily find keys / titles you're looking for.
CMD improvements:
Scan another Windows OS using CMD; IPv6 range; create output filename with current date/time.
"Deep scan" improvements:
Deep scan is now working with Registry Hives too.
Better "Deep scan" filtering:
Improved deep scan data filtering, deep scan now filters out more unrelated to product keys data.
Improved performance of large .reg files scan:
Some .reg files size might be over 1 GB, in such case scan performance is essential to save time.
IPv6 support:
You can now scan IPv6 range with both GUI and CMD versions.
Localization:
Now available in 27 languages

New in Recover Keys 8.0.3.109 (Apr 29, 2014)

Another approach to network scan:
Agent deployment instead of remote registry, which increases performance significantly and reduced network traffic even more significantly. Furthermore, more data is fetched, which wasn't available via registry before.
Increase in performance of scanning network PC varies from 10 to 50 times (depending on network speed and amount of data transferred).
Network scan performance:
Decrease of local network traffic used varies from 5 to 100 times (depending on network speed and amount of data transferred).
Local traffic during network scan:
Scan for Windows 8 product key located in BIOS
Applicable for Widows 8 OEMs, laptops and PCs with pre-installed Windows 8.
Faster and better "Deep scan" filtering:
In the last version we introduced experimental "Deep scan" feature and it was positively reviewed by our users. In this version we improved deep scan a lot in both performance and data filtering, deep scan is now faster and filters out more unrelated to product keys data.
Windows Activation status:
Recover Keys can now show if your Windows is activated or not.
Shows last 5 characters of Office 2013:
Unfortunately last 5 chars are all there is stored by Microsoft. But 5 is better than nothing, right? For more information visit this page.
Scan for "Installed software" and "Installed updates":
Some of our customers are using Recover Keys for network audit and were requesting such functionality. We hope everybody will benefit from these features. By default both features are turned off, but you can enable them in "Options" dialog.
MSP license introduced:
MSP (Managed Service Provider) License is the best option for IT service providers. There's no limitation on the number of clients this license will be used with. Being a Service Provider you can install the purchased software at the clients side for inventory purposes for any time limit. There's no limitation on the number of PCs you can scan. MSP license is same as Enterprise license, the only difference is that Enterprise license is limited to 1 company only, while MSP license allows you to install/use it on clients PCs.
More "Deep Scan" options:
Available in Options dialog - advanced tab - last 2 options, as shown in the picture below. Product keys might be stored in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and Microsoft folder in registry, but contents of these folders are massive, and it will affect performance of deep scan. There is small chance that something useful will be found there during deep scan - that's why they are not enabled by default.
Options dialog - advanced tab
Export to folder
Now you can export to a folder where for each computer scanned new file will be created (with computer name). For instance, if you will scan 2 PCs with names PC1 and PC2 and want to export to Excel there will be 2 files created PC1.xls and PC2.xls
Recover Keys - save to folder
Shotgun-mode scan improved:
Shotgun-mode scan performance was improved and now it is available via command-line version as well.
License files:
Some programs are activated with binary license files instead of product keys. For such programs Recover Keys will show Base64 encoded version of binary file.
Resolved host name in CSV and tab-separated files:
New column is introduced in both CSV and TSF files, called "Descriptive computer name", which will include both IP and computer name (in necessary) when scanning network.

New in Recover Keys 7.0.3.84 (Apr 24, 2013)

New in Recover Keys 6.0.2.63 (Jun 6, 2012)

3600+ software programs supported. About 500 new programs were added to our list of supported programs, since last version of Recover Keys.
New license: Portable. This license is not limited on number of PCs used within one company, but does not support network scan. This license can be installed on USB-thumb drive or simply copied.
Dramatically optimized scan speed. Local scan is now 8 times faster. Significant amount of time can be saved while scanning large network.
New 'Smart scan' feature. Checks 'boot.ini' and if PC has more than one Windows OS installed - it will scan all of them.
Improved export functions. Everything according to RFC specifications and better looks.
Export to Excel, Word and RTF will work without Office. There is no need to have Microsoft Office installed anymore in order for export to Word, Rich text format and Excel work.
No more limitations for export functions. Every export format is now available in all licenses, from Single to Enterprise.
View mode. You can switch between old look and new look which has just 3 columns (Product, Type, Value)
Improved hive scan. Increased speed and fixed bugs.
Simultaneous hive scan. Scan up to 10 hives at the same time.
Portable version in one file. Portable version (former USB-stick version) is no longer require any other file expect self generated 'settings.ini'. All required files, including localization are now embedded in resources.
64-bit version is available. For those who wanna use power of 64 bit CPUs.
Network scan changes:
Auto-start "Remote registry" service. There is no longer need to have "Remote registry" service started on network PC. Recover Keys will do it for you automatically.
Test connection. Not sure if entered correct password or is firewall configured properly? Now you can test connection before connecting.
Ping before connect option. In case of scanning large IP range or list of computers ability to 'ping' remote PC before connecting is essential to speed up process.
Fixed 'open files' problem. Which could cause "Multiple connections to server are not possible..." error. Now after job is done program disconnects from network PC properly.
Fixed problem with scanning network PC when user is not logged-in. Since Windows mounts user's HKCU registry hive after login - not all keys were found. Now Recover Keys will mount everything automatically.