>>>>>Is there a way via VFP to retrieve the processor ID of a user's PC?
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>Doug
>>>>
>>>>Not easily. Besides, even if there were, I don't think that all chips have one. The Intel chips did, but, AFAIK, the AMDs didn't. Or are you talking about the type?
>>>
>>>I want a way to uniquely identify a piece of hardware. Any ideas?
>>
>>Doug,
>>
>>You can use the MAC address of the network card (assuming it has a network card).
>
>Excuse my ignorance, but how is this done?

If the system is a Win2K, XP or NT with WMI installed, you can do the following:

omgr = getobject("WinMgmts:")
oadaptercol = omgr.InstancesOf("Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration")
IF oadaptercol.Count > 0 then
   * go through each adapter configured on the system
   for each oadapter in oadaptercol
      if type("alen(oadapter.Properties_('IPAddress').Value)") = "N" then
         * check was done to handle WAN adpaters that are configured on the
         * system however they don't have IP addresses so disregard them
         ? oadapter.Properties_('MACAddress').Value
      endif
   endfor
ENDIF
return

HTH.

P.S. to Rick Bean - This may work on the hardware directly. I haven't tested it that far.