Most reliable Hardware info that we can get using WMI

Hello,

I have never used WMI in WD. But there is a ready to use demo provided. But this demo is dependent on .NET for WMI.

In the demo I could not understand as to how to get for example motherboard (baseboard) serial # or Bios manufacturer directly. But I am playing with it at present.

While I am playing with it I would like to know as to which is the most reliable hardware information that will not change even if user updates Windows or formats the system.

I want this information to build my own simple but effective copy protection for an application that I am planning to distribute once it is completed.

TIA

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Yogi Yang

Hi,

at the command prompt type:

wmic baseboard get product,manufacturer,version,serialnumber

without any spaces between the parameters product,manufacturer ...

There was even a thread on this forum as well, the most interesting number is the UUID

[www.wxforum.info]

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
office@windev.at



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2022 05:00PM by gpredl.

Hello,

Thanks a lot for pointing me to this old post.

From what I have understood we should use the command prompt and extract hardware detail and then use them in protection.

I think BIOS SerialNumber and UUID would suffice.

Let me see if this is practically workable.


TIA

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Yogi Yang