🚀 go-pugleaf

And only the OS can know when only a few of those items have changed
in one go as it's the only piece of software that's run every time.
If your app is only run once a year and several things get changed between
running it, then your customers could be very unhappy.
I wouldn't buy anything that was locked like that (apart from WinXP)
Rgds Pete

"Alan Bellingham" <alanb@episys.com> wrote in message 
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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
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