Other files to consider
IO.SYS
MSDOS.SYS
CONFIG.SYS
or Kernal32.DLL in the windows directory.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alistair George [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 February 2000 10:57
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Pirateing
>
> That old subject.
> Well I have made a fairly bullet-proof registration system for my
> software.
> Unfortunately, it seems that since the use of that, and no cracks being
> available, is a sudden influx of users who have had to 'reformat their
> hard
> drive' and want new keys. This is doing about 10% of my clients, which is
> ridiculous.
>
> What I would like to do is supply the user a wee utility which finds when
> their hard disk was formatted, but I dont think this info is available, or
> is it? I have looked at Getvolumeinfo().
> Maybe another way is to look at a file typically created when Windows is
> initialised in the route directory, and extract its create date, and
> return
> it as a integer since 1900 (most users wouldnt know what that was). There
> are 2 likely candidates I can see:
> 1stscan.txt & Resetlog.txt
> Anybody know what those 2 above are used for?
> Tks,
> Alistair+
>
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