Hi, Ko

The point, in my way of doing it, is that the .ini file is also copied to the new machine "An illegal copy", and when the app. starts the serialno. in the .ini file does not match the one on the harddrive. Then you can see that it is a illigal copy...



>>Hi, Edward
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>>One way to do it, is to find the serialno. on the harddrive you install your app. on, and save it in an .ini file.
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>>Each time your app. is started it checks the serialno. on the harddrive. If they don't match, then "do something bad to the user".
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>>>I have developed an application which will be used by over 50 locations. I would like to prevent my application from illegal copy usage by unlicenced users. Is there any way to enact it?
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>Another way is to store it in a reg key with such a name that you can't see it's from your app.
>That avoids the user from copying the ini file too