New Laptop, Lost Serial Number

[rickseiden]

I've searched the boards, and I can't find anything on this. I might have missed it, and if I have, I appologize in advance.

Is there any way to find my perfectly legal VMWare licence so I can install it on my new laptop before formatting the hard drive?

Thanks

Rick

PS: What version of VMWare I'm using, not to mention the product and the host os might help, no?

VMWare Workstation 5.5.3-34685 running on Windows XP Pro.

[RDPetruska]

Visit the main vmware.com website. Go to Support, log in. Vist My Account, Find Serial Number. Link here[/url]

[rickseiden]

Thanks. I got that serial number, but it's giving me an error message. It says it can't find any licenses for my serial number. I saw this on the boards when I was searching for this answer, so I'll look there to see if I can find the answer there.

Thanks again for your help.

[rickseiden]

I found another solution. I went into regedit, under LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMWare, Inc.\VMWare Workstation and exported the License.ws.5.0 key. Imported it to my new machine, and I'm all set.

[RDPetruska]

Yep, that works. You didn't say in your initial post that you had your old system still installed.

As far as the web site, your serial \*should* be in your account's product listing (as long as you've registered it with VMware). You can always contact sales if it's not showing up there in the list.