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Myself as the developer. I need a unique identifier of any machine which can always be read by code, then OK. I can allow the user to revoke one machine, which cannot be used in the future, and add another so that they have always 3 machines that they can use, that would be good.

Many thanks. I think checking a machine is more cumbersome and doing it through a website is worth investigating further.

Sorry my simple mind can't quite grasp this. If I purchase the software and make a copy of it and give it to someone else and therefore it will contain the licencing data or if it doesn't and gets the licence code via email which can then be passed to the second illegal user, what's stopping...

What's stopping the user from sharing the licensing data with others or would the server only allow one person to connect at a time with the same licensing data?

Could you clarify please.

For the C drive serial number, when I use Public Function GetDriveSerialNumber(strDriveName As String) As String 'strDriveSerialNumber = GetDriveSerialNumber("C:") Dim fso As Variant Dim f As Variant On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Set fso =...

Do you mean combining different serial numbers?

Thanks theDBguy, it seems that your way is more fail safe. Pity, I was hoping to avoid using the web as I haven't dabbled with the web in anyway. But if that's the way to go, then so be it.

Yes please. It would be nice if there was something in WMI code that would tell us if we have an activated MS Office which is part of what I wanted. This still eludes me. Please note, I am not interested in making an unactivated copy into an activated copy. Simply whether it's activated or not.

Hmmm, can't understand why the MB Serial number didn't work. That is worrying as I was hoping to use this to identify machines where my software could be used. I may need to use a combination of the MB serial number and C Drive serial number to do what I want.

Try this to see if you can get the serial number of your C drive. Public Function GetDriveSerialNumber(strDriveName As String) As String 'strDriveSerialNumber = GetDriveSerialNumber("C:") Dim fso As Variant Dim f As Variant On Error GoTo ErrorHandler Set fso =...

I used the code on my laptop and I get 123490EN400015. Also tried it on a desktop and that gave CZC82064B.

Public Function MotherBoardSerialNumber() As String 'http://www.yogeshguptaonline.com/2009/07/hardware-locking-for-excel-workbook.html Dim objs As Object Dim obj As Object Dim WMI As Object Dim strAnswer As String Set WMI = GetObject("WinMgmts:") Set objs =...

Well I understand obtaining the password is pretty easy from 3rd party software, but good to have anyway, belts and braces. As far as EverythingAccess is concerned, if there is enough copyright information and contact details on each part of the code, hopefully Wayne Philips would see that and...

Would an expert be able to retrieve the code from a accde file? I didn't think that was possible?

arnelgp, I have had a customary look at the db (testExpiry.accdb) you posted from a different thread and it works well. However what's stopping a purchaser from sharing the details with someone else and sending them a copy of your db. So in effect you would only need one person to purchase the...

No problem.

Is that something you have done?

Apologies, I should have been more clear in my first post. I did have a look to see if there was a registry called 'Activation Required', but no such key. I guess you are right isladogs, I wouldn't expect it to be that easy. I did look at the file in c:\windows\system32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig...

Hmmm, good idea. I need to look into that as a possiblility as well. Thanks. My son is a web expert, so he may be able to help me on that.