The Windows ID includes Windows operating system information combined with hardware used on a computer system and is similar to a Windows UUID (Universal Unique Identifier). The Windows ID will be different even on virtual machines (if you clone one Windows copy and run it on a virtual machine on another computer).

 

The advantage of this ID is, that it will seldom change and cannot be faked. Changing the hostname, volume ID or MAC address will not affect this installation code.

Settings for Activation Server

To allow a reactivation, you have to limit the reactivation to an ID which is still the same even if Windows is reinstalled. These are the settings for the project.config file

 

    <InstCodeType1>13</InstCodeType1>

   <InstCodeType2>4</InstCodeType2>   (this would be used if the Windows ID cannot be retrieved and is empty)

 

   <AllowReactivation>Yes</AllowReactivation>

  <IgnoreLocalInstCodes>false</IgnoreLocalInstCodes> (definition is mandatory for reactivation using Windows ID)

  <CheckInstCodeType1>2</CheckInstCodeType1>  (in case Windows is reinstalled, it is checked if the MAC address is still the same). If you use regular online checks use code 13 instead of 2 to detect reinstallation.

  <MinIdenticalInstcodes></MinIdenticalInstcodes>  (must be empty)

 

 

 

This is the recommended installation code for single user installations

 

This ID can only be used as a single PC / single user license. A network license is not supported.