I have written this code which gathers all details about applications installed on the computer and writes them to a file. I first used getfileversionsize to allocate the required memory then used getfileversioninfo and verqueryvalues to get the different information I am passing the identifier string e.g. "companyName","productVersion" etc.to a separate function which writes to the output file. How do I get the Licence Number for a application using above or any other Win32 API. Is it available in the same data block that Getfileversioninfo writes to, then what is Identifier?
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>> How do I get the Licence Number for a application
This is application-dependent data, the various files/registry keys that the license number is stored in may vary. In some cases the License Number is encoded. In other cases there is both a License Number AND a Product ID, and in many cases there is no license number.
This is application-dependent data, the various files/registry keys that the license number is stored in may vary. In some cases the License Number is encoded. In other cases there is both a License Number AND a Product ID, and in many cases there is no license number.
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Yeah, guess I realised that after I had posted. Also I guess it is illegal to extract licence and other copyright information as it would amount to piracy. Thanks anyway. However what I did get was the LegalCopyright information from verqueryvalue this is good enough because it usually contains the time period of the copyright or license.
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