How to read Bios serial ??

[Phogang]

How to read Bios serial ??
Thanks in advances.

[John G Duffy]

You can't. Bill Gates' people would love to do just that. Currently their registration scheme uses the C: drive serial number to tie a product to a registration number of a installed product. Thats the best Microsoft can come up. So when you install a current MS product, Its registration ties that physical CDROM to the C: drive. If you ever replace your C: drive, you get to but a new copy of the software product.

John G

[Asawo IJK]

How do you think the Piracy stuff can be handled?
Can you also give details on how what you (Jonh G) explained on what the Bill Gates people do?

[CaseSwitch]

you can gather some information about the bios via WMI (Win32_Bios and Win32_ComputerSystemProduct).

f.e. Win32_Bios.SerialNumber works for me.

set compsyswmi = getobject("winmgmts:root/cimv2")
compsyswql = "select * from win32_bios"
set instances = compsyswmi.execquery(compsyswql)
for each instance in instances
	biosserial = instance.serialnumber
	'...add any instance you want here
next
msgbox biosserial

attached is a script (rename to vbs or simply via via notepad) which tries to read all possible bios-information via WMI.

output to string not possible for all - therefor the "on error resume next"-line. lame, but it should work for a simple overview.

btw: ALWAYS take a look at WMI-components if you have to gather information about the target-system. its a mighty base.