In the Windows SDK there is a CLI tool named computerhardwareids The tool returns various GUIDs to select the proper HardwareId for the specific case. This is the output that returns this tool in...

I've created an application using PHP and I'm going to sell it to my local market. I will personally be going to their locations to install/configure Apache & MySQL as well as installing my own...

Mac OS X development is a fairly new animal for me, and I'm in the process of porting over some software. For software licensing and registration I need to be able to generate some kind of hardware...

I need in my program to tie a license to a hardware ID. I tried use WMI, but it still slow. I need, for example, CPU, HDD, and motherboard info.

Does Mac OS X have API that translates Apple's model identifiers (the kind found in plists and APIs, e.g., "MacBookPro5,1") to user-friendly marketing names of these devices ("Unibody MacBook Pro L...

I want to bind a program to a specific computer, and for that I want to use the serial number of the motherboard as unique identifier. Although I could find some examples for C# and Java, I couldn...

Im porting a windows application for Mac using Mono.I cannot use DPAPI in Mac and i think there is restriction in getting Mainboard/CPU id in Mac for User Level programs.So is there something like ...

I want to identify my mac system uniquely via code. I find the Hardware UUID in my About this Mac. So how to programmatically access the unique uuid from MAc OS X. Kindly provide me if there are a...

Question: I have to come up with unique ID for each networked client, such that: it (ID) should persist once client software is installed on target computer, and should continue to persist if sof...

How to get hardware information (for example cpuId, biosId, diskId, baseId and videoId) in c++? Can anyone give me an example visual studio project for this?

For a requirement to generate per-PC license keys, I need some code which will return a stable and (near) unique key on any PC. It doesn't have to be guaranteed unique, but close. It does need to b...

Possible Duplicate: Reliable way of generating unique hardware ID Am trying to generate an ID that will be unique to a particular computer. The ID will not be generated randomly. It w...