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VB 6 - Hard disk serial
Name: Martyn999 Date: August 10, 2007 at 06:19:59 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro SP1 CPU/Ram: Athlon64 3500+ / 1GB
Comment:
I already have code to obtain the hard disk's serial and model numbers for visual basic (using the SMART technology stuff), but when run in a limited account on Windows XP it returns nothing. I have tried various other code samples I found online to no avail, only thing I did come across was some dll that you have to pay for which apparently works on a limited account.
Surely if the dll can obtain this information it must be do-able in a limited account, so does anyone have any ideas?
Name: Razor2.3 Date: August 12, 2007 at 19:23:35 Pacific
Reply:
It's not possible without outside help. Such information is considered too low-level for limited users. The DLL you found probably comes with a service that handles such requests for a limited user.
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Response Number 2
Name: Martyn999 Date: August 13, 2007 at 13:01:28 Pacific
Reply:
After a lot of searching online I found a c++ console based program that works in limited accounts, so I used the code from that and made a dll which I can now load from visual basic.
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