How To Get An Unique ID?

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How can i get an unique id from one of installed hardwares? Something like h.d.d serial or motherboard, ....? Thanks

However, after long time searching, I used cpuid to get my uniaue id. If someone needs to know more just tell me to post. — Armin Taghavizad, Sep 15 '10 at 08:54
This question looks like a duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1852134/how-to-generate-an-unique-computer-id-on-delphi — splash, Sep 13 '10 at 12:09

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 13 '10 at 12:04

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answered Sep 13 '10 at 12:04

Be careful with the one from code project as I am not 100% sure it works on all operating systems, esp. vista – Rippo Sep 13 '10 at 12:40
True story, noticed it 3 years later :p! – Aug 28 '13 at 07:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 13 '10 at 13:37

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answered Sep 13 '10 at 13:37

RobertFrank

I have this unit already, but i'm not sure it works fine on every sytem. You sure about this? Does work on any H.D.D (Sata, IDE,..) or any OS? And what about laptops? – Armin Taghavizad Sep 13 '10 at 14:04
By the way, when i click for disk serial in windows xp (as it said) it returns null, and for motherboard just returns model, no serial!! – Armin Taghavizad Sep 13 '10 at 14:18
Sorry, Armin, but we haven't extensively tested it on different platforms. It's one of many checks we use to determine if a user has moved his software to another computer after licensing. – RobertFrank Sep 13 '10 at 16:05
Why would someone downvote my answer here? – RobertFrank May 04 '13 at 21:42
good question! answer was useful! – Armin Taghavizad May 28 '13 at 08:56

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