Processor serial number

Refer:
CodeProject:
How To Get Hardware Information (CPU ID, MainBoard Info, Hard Disk Serial, System Information , ...)[^]
MSDN:
__cpuid, __cpuidex[^]

How to get Processor Serial Number[^]

public string GetCPUId()
	{
	    string cpuInfo =  String.Empty;        
	    //create an instance of the Managemnet class with the
	    //Win32_Processor class
	    ManagementClass mgmt = new ManagementClass("Win32_Processor");
	    //create a ManagementObjectCollection to loop through
	    ManagementObjectCollection objCol = mgmt.GetInstances();
	    //start our loop for all processors found
	    foreach(ManagementObject obj in objCol)
	    {
	        if(cpuInfo == String.Empty)
	        {
            // only return cpuInfo from first CPU
	            cpuInfo = obj.Properties["ProcessorId"].Value.ToString();
	        }           
	    }
	    return cpuInfo;    
	}
    }

this program may help you to get processorID.

try to use WMI classes to retrieve CPU spesific information.
use Win32_Processor class .

Usually is invoked in the C program a function with asm code. Some ideas you can found in Wikipedia CPUID. In linux there are two options: dmidecode and libcpuid.

Get the MAC (Media Access Control) address. But this may not be more interesting than the CPU ID.

- Get the name of the computer with:
Code:

int get_computer_name(BYTE *computer_name, DWORD *computer_name_lg)
{
   HKEY hKey;
   if (RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
               "SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\ComputerName\\ComputerName",
               0, KEY_QUERY_VALUE, &hKey ) != ERROR_SUCCESS)
      return FALSE;
   if (RegQueryValueEx(hKey, "ComputerName", NULL, NULL,
                       (LPBYTE) computer_name,
                       (LPDWORD) computer_name_lg) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
      RegCloseKey(hKey);
      return FALSE;
   }
   RegCloseKey(hKey);
   return TRUE;
}
...
   BYTE name[250] = "Default name";
   DWORD name_lg = 250;
   if (get_computer_name(name, &name_lg) == TRUE) {
   ...
   }

This is working well with my Windows ME computer and with my Windows XP computer. But, unfortunately there is no guarantee that computer names will be unique. It depends on the name that was assigned to them when Windows was installed.

#include <stdio.h>

void getPSN(char *PSN)
{
int varEAX, varEBX, varECX, varEDX;
   char str[9];
   //%eax=1 gives most significant 32 bits in eax 
   __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid": "=a" (varEAX), "=b" (varEBX), "=c" (varECX), "=d" (varEDX) : "a" (1));
   sprintf(str, "%08X", varEAX); //i.e. XXXX-XXXX-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
   sprintf(PSN, "%C%C%C%C-%C%C%C%C", str[0], str[1], str[2], str[3], str[4], str[5], str[6], str[7]);
   //%eax=3 gives least significant 64 bits in edx and ecx [if PN is enabled]
   __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid": "=a" (varEAX), "=b" (varEBX), "=c" (varECX), "=d" (varEDX) : "a" (3));
   sprintf(str, "%08X", varEDX); //i.e. xxxx-xxxx-XXXX-XXXX-xxxx-xxxx
   sprintf(PSN, "%s-%C%C%C%C-%C%C%C%C", PSN, str[0], str[1], str[2], str[3], str[4], str[5], str[6], str[7]);
   sprintf(str, "%08X", varECX); //i.e. xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-XXXX-XXXX
   sprintf(PSN, "%s-%C%C%C%C-%C%C%C%C", PSN, str[0], str[1], str[2], str[3], str[4], str[5], str[6], str[7]);
}

int main()
{
    char PSN[30]; //24 Hex digits, 5 '-' separators, and a '\0'
    getPSN(PSN);
    printf("%s\n", PSN); //compare with: lshw | grep serial:
    return 0;
}

using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Management;
5namespace trainingCSharp
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
1 {
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from Win32_Processor");
string info = "";
foreach (ManagementObject obj in searcher.Get())
{
try
{
info = obj.Properties["ProcessorId"].Value.ToString() + "\n";
}
catch { }
}
MessageBox.Show(info);
}

}
}