Yet another noob question

[jakethepeg]

Hi folks, does anyone know of a way to get the system serial number of a desktop machine using Autoit ?

The following vbs script file works great on all machines except the NT boxes.

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for each Bios in GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("win32_bios")

BiosSerial = Bios.SerialNumber

next

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All suggestions welcome. Thanks.

[Joon]

  jakethepeg said:

Hi folks, does anyone know of a way to get the system serial number of a desktop machine using Autoit ?

The following vbs script file works great on all machines except the NT boxes.

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for each Bios in GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf ("win32_bios")

BiosSerial = Bios.SerialNumber

next

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All suggestions welcome. Thanks.

That's because Windows NT 4 doesn't have WMI by default. You can use something like SMBIOS to retrieve serial from DMI.

[jakethepeg]

  Joon said:

That's because Windows NT 4 doesn't have WMI by default. You can use something like SMBIOS to retrieve serial from DMI.

Thanks for the reply. I knew about the lack of WMI in NT4 which is why I'm trying to get an Autoit script together to do the job. I take it there's no inbuilt function in autoit that can do this then ?