Hey guys im pretty new to vb6 here and need some tips. What i'm trying to do is exactly what Redth has done. I know how to request the hard drive serial and display it but I have no idea where to go from here. I would like to get some ideas/examples on how to create the "sharware" process and how I could convert the hard drive numbers into letters, to then make a generator that produces another set of letters (which would be an activation key) that the program compares with the hdd serial and accepts if generated correctly.

I just need some general examples to get started off.

sorry to bring up such an old topic, but this one seemed closer to the issue im working on when it came up in search. If there are other topics with info. im looking for please direct me to them.

Thanks for any help, this is an awesome forum. waiting your reply..