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Article #10743Re: CPU Serial Number - Unique ID for Machine?
From: Robert Hoover
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:21
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:21
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What about GetCurrentHwProfile()? The documentation states that szHwProfileGuid is a globally unique identifier (GUID) string for the current hardware profile. Is this truly a unique machine identification number? Thanks, Rob ____________________________________________________________ "Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:40462917$2@newsgroups.borland.com... "LarryJ" <LarryJ33@ev1.net> wrote in message news:40459969@newsgroups.borland.com... > Is there a API to grap the computer CPU serial number? No. You will need to use inline assembly to query the CPU directly by sending it a CPUID command. > Are there any other serial numbers I can grab? These questions have been asked and answered many many times before. Go to http://www.deja.com or http://www.mers.com and search through the newsgroup archives. Gambit
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