VB To Read System Information

[Fritz Wuehler]

The newest way for software vendors to protect their programs from
piracy seems to be to somehow hook a downloaded program into the
computer it is installed on. This generates a 'system' number, and
the user has to register the program and get a registration number
generated from the first number.

Is there some way in visual basic to do this? In fact, if I could
just read a few system variables that are peculiar to that
computer, I could then, I think, have the program generate the
system number to be given to the developer; and a registration
number could then be created, based on that system number, and
sent back to the user.

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Post by Fritz Wuehler
The newest way for software vendors to protect their programs from
piracy seems to be to somehow hook a downloaded program into the
computer it is installed on. This generates a 'system' number, and
the user has to register the program and get a registration number
generated from the first number.
Is there some way in visual basic to do this? In fact, if I could
just read a few system variables that are peculiar to that
computer, I could then, I think, have the program generate the
system number to be given to the developer; and a registration
number could then be created, based on that system number, and
sent back to the user.