I read just recently that the new Pentium III chips have their own unique
serial numbers.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Comb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:04 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Hard drive serial Number
>
> Yes I have found this also. However the purpose of our protection was to
> stop people form outside the company using our software. The chances that
> their hard disk has the same serial number as tha machine that they copied
> from is still pretty slim.
>
> Matt.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wilfred Verkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:53 AM
> Subject: RE: [DUG]: Hard drive serial Number
>
>
> > HD Serial numbers arnt always unique I think. Batches of hard-drives
> may
> > have the same number, you may discover this when you buy a batch of
> > computers from a supplier. This caused problems with a copy-protection
> > scheme I developed once. One registration key would work on several
> > machines.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthew Comb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 1999 10:36
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Hard drive serial Number
> >
> >
> > Just as an add to the HD Serial topic.
> >
> > I used this with great success in making sure that our software was only
> run
> > on our machines. I doctored around with the serial number and recorded
> it
> in
> > the registry and then when the software runs I ran the same algorithm
> and
> > compared it to the value in the registry, Shutting the machine down if
> it
> > was not the same value.
> >
> > The only problem I came across was that I found one machine with a hard
> disk
> > that had a hyphen '-' in the serial number and thus was not reported as
> an
> > integer - screwed my algorithm up (Very sloppy programming). Just
> thought
> > you might want to be aware of this.
> >
> > Matt.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Chris Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 10:20 AM
> > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Hard drive serial Number
> >
> >
> > > function GetHDSerialNumber: LongInt;
> > > {$IFDEF WIN32}
> > > var
> > > pdw : pDWord;
> > > mc, fl : dword;
> > > {$ENDIF}
> > > begin
> > > {$IfDef WIN32}
> > > New(pdw);
> > > GetVolumeInformation(nil,nil,0,pdw,mc,fl,nil,0);
> > > Result := pdw^;
> > > dispose(pdw);
> > > {$ELSE}
> > > Result := GetWinFlags;
> > > {$ENDIF}
> > > end;
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:33 AM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > > Subject: [DUG]: Hard drive serial Number
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Anyone know off the top of there head the function for getting the
> hard
> > > drive serial number of a win9x computer?
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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