Get Windows CE serial number or product key

[Keven Corazza]

Hi,

is there a way to get the Windows CE product ID ? (in the PC this id is
saved on registry but it seems that not on CE )

I would like to have an additional ID, not only the standard DeviceID.

Thank you in advance.

Regards

Keven Corazza

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

What do you mean, exactly, by Windows CE product ID?

Paul T.

 

[Keven Corazza]

I suppose that any copy of Windows CE has his own product ID code. Or not ...

In any Windows CE device I found a label with the name of the product
(Windows Mobile ...) followed by a unique number.

I think that number is also written somewhere in the system...

Keven Corazza

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

A "copy of Windows CE"? You have a registration code for Platform Builder,
but operating systems generated by Platform Builder don't have anything
automatically assigned somehow that would correspond to an install of a
licensed item on a PC. Platform Builder generates a platform ID for each
operating system configuration that a user of it generates:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Windows CE Tools]
"Platform"="{a guid value}"

Are you targeting Windows Mobile? Remember that Windows Mobile <> Windows
CE! Just because something is in Windows Mobile DOES NOT mean that there's
a corresponding thing in Windows CE.

Paul T.

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

That's a CAL sticker, and I've never seen a way to get it programmatically
from any device. WinMo devices do have an API to get a "unique ID" for the
device (though I recall some devices return duplicates, so it's not really
unique). Some CE devices may also, if the OEM chose to provide one.


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