Re: MAC Address or CPU ID/Serial#

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Rogers
If you're looking for a unique identifier you'll probably want to use the CPU ID and not the MAC address as network cards are replaced every so often (CPUs rarely). You'll see that it return the first CPU ID found. This avoids problems with multi-cpu machines...i discovered that different flav

MAC Address or CPU ID/Serial#

2004-12-12 Thread Leroy G. Blimegger Jr.
Hi All, >From VB.NET, does anyone know how to retrieve either the MAC address of an installed NIC or the CPU ID / Serial number? Basically, I'm looking for a piece of information related to a specific computer that can not be changed easily. This piece of information will be used to generate an en