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    Uniquely Identifying a PC

    Hi.

    I was looking into adding a liscencing component to my software (windows software).

    Does anyone know any way to uniquely identify a machine so that liscencing info can't simply be copied from one PC to another.

    I'm sorry that the question's a little open ended, any sugestions are welcome.

    Regards

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    Re: Uniquely Identifying a PC

    I've seen a few licensing systems use the MAC address of the ethernet adaptor. A quick search brought up this article on getting MAC addresses (Windows-specific).
    - Alon

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    Re: Uniquely Identifying a PC

    Linux machines are able to change their MAC addresses, incidentally.

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