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Hi,

What are APIs can used to get information used to uniquely identify a PC
system?

Indeed the only thing I really want is to find a mechanism to generate a
global unique key to identiy my software installed across customers. The
installation package is same, when my client install it, I will write some
unique key to the database for later importing/exorting data to use.

Thanks a lot!
Ryan
Apr 20 '06 #1
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Bind to the motherboard params (type, bios and etc) via WMI. It's the most
rarely changed device. MS is binding his product to the motherboards
What are APIs can used to get information used to uniquely identify a PC
system?

Indeed the only thing I really want is to find a mechanism to generate a
global unique key to identiy my software installed across customers. The
installation package is same, when my client install it, I will write some
unique key to the database for later importing/exorting data to use.


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