>I thought motherboards did not have serial numbers, only cpus (PIII and up), but I found this. Here is code to do this in VB, maybe someone out there can modify it to work with VFP? (George and Ed know alot about scripting)
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>YOU MUST HAVE WMI INSTALLED AND A REFERENCE TO
>Microsoft WMI Scripting Library IS REQUIRED IN VB FOR THIS TO WORK
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>Public Function MBSerialNumber() As String
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>Dim objs As Object
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>Dim obj As Object
>Dim WMI As Object
>Dim sAns As String
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>Set WMI = GetObject("WinMgmts:")
>Set objs = WMI.InstancesOf("Win32_BaseBoard")
>For Each obj In objs
>  sAns = sAns & obj.SerialNumber
> If sAns < objs.Count Then sAns = sAns & ","
>Next
>MBSerialNumber = sAns
>End Function
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>>I have already sent a message for everybody, but I think you didn't see it...
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>>Thanks anyway...
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>>Silvio

Tracy,

I haven't played around with this much. However, I believe, that in order for GETOBJECT() in VFP to work, you'll have to first create one of the WMI object. Like so

oWMI = CREATEOBJECT("WbemScripting.SWbemNamedValueSet")
oObj = GETOBJECT("WINMGMTS:")

GETOBJECT() will fail otherwise. Now whether or not that's the ProgID you need in CREATEOBJECT(), is another question entirely. I haven't been able to duplicate your code in VBScript in VFP (yet), but the documentation shows a lot of useful information. I think (but don't know for sure) that WMI may install on Win2K Pro by default. That's a guess, however.