Christian, I noticed weird things with RAID arrays and the HD Serial number even reading it through the Windows API in Visual C++. Might have nothing to do with the function being broken.
Just my $0.02. -bill k On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Christian Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 05.10.2012 um 21:31 schrieb Andrew Voller <[email protected]>: > >> Hi there, >> >> I am using the SystemInformationMBS.MachineID() as part of my licensing >> system to lock the license to a particular computer. I have now seen a >> situation where the MachineID changes frequently for the same computer under >> WIndows OS (no reports on Mac OS). I have narrowed it down to the >> HardDiscSerial value changing (as the MachineID is made up from several >> parts which I have checked). Below is a sample taken showing the change each >> time the routine is called on the same computer once a second (Windows 7 64x >> Sophos Anti Virus). >> Any Ideas as to why this is happening ? > > > So you think HardDiscSerial is broken and returns bad data? > > Greetings > Christian > > -- > Read our blog about news on our plugins: > > http://www.mbsplugins.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list > [email protected] > https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info _______________________________________________ Mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info mailing list [email protected] https://ml01.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/mbsplugins_monkeybreadsoftware.info
