I'm thinking it would be a wee more efficient if winioctl.h and usbscan.h were added to the project's stdafx.h file. "One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson "Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons "Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous

StefanKittel wrote: I'll use a mixture from hostname and SID. The hostname can be changed without rebooting the system. I don't know what an SID is, or how it's obtained. There's no such thing as a CPU serial number, and the CPU ID is nothing more than a list of features expressed in a hex string. Two machines with the same CPU would give you back the same CPU ID. Not all motherboards expose a serial number. Further, not all BIOS's expose one either, especially if they've been updated. Believe me - you're wasting your time. "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

Hello, that looks great. I ignored LookupAccountName because, reading in the msdn, it should be only working with a PDC. I try this out. Thanks Stefan

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StefanKittel wrote: I would like to show a text Give us some background of your experience with drawing text, in a window, in DirectX ??? What else?? "Just about every question you've asked over the last 3-4 days has been "urgent". Perhaps a little planning would be helpful?" Colin Angus Mackay in the C# forum led mike