Re: get disk serial number

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From: Tom|420
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:35

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zhan wei ming wrote:

> what I want to do is to get unique id for a specific computer, to protect my
> application.

You might want to know that Windows provides with such an ID

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProductID

As fas as I know, this ID is randomly created when installing Windows 
and is different when you re-install, and is not related whatsoever with 
the CD serial key you feed the installer with.

Overtime I discovered that a certain amount of software rely on that ID 
to identify you. Not as a security meseare (at least not in deciding if 
the software is going to start or not). PalTalk is a good example as it 
uses that number (amoung other information) to identify you as unique 
even with you register another user and thus once you are banned from a 
room, you remain banned untill you reformat and even change computer.

Hope this helps,
Tom :)

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