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Article #8473Re: get disk serial number
From: Alan Bellingham
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:16
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:16
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"zhan wei ming" <zhanweiming@hotmail.com> wrote: >what I want to do is to get unique id for a specific computer, to protect my >application. Tricky. Tonight, I'm upgrading my computer by replacing the hard drives. Am I to assume that your application would then refuse to run on it afterwards? I suspect that a 'proper' solution would involve attempting to get a unique ID for the processor, every drive visible, the network card and anything else available, and then continue as long as all of those haven't changed in one go. Alan Bellingham -- ACCU Conference 2005 - 20-23 April, Randolph Hotel, Oxford, UK
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