- Hard drive's volume serial number
- Network card's MAC address
- CD-ROM drive identification string
- Graphics card identification string
- CPU serial number string
- Hard drive hard identification string
- SCSI host adapter hardware identification string
- IDE controller hardware identification string
- CPU processor model string
- RAM size
- Whether the computer is able to be docked
To read more about Product Activation, check out these sites: 7. Must I reactivate my software if I reformat my hard drive? As mentioned in question five, reformatting the hard drive will require reactivation. Luckily, the same grace periods apply for this reactivation as applied to the original activation. Also, reactivation can be completed as many times as necessary on the same computer. 8. Will I have to reactivate if I run the Windows XP Recovery Console from the Windows XP Installation CD? Thankfully, the answer to this is no. Use of the Windows XP Recovery Console will not invalidate your activation and cause you to reactivate your product. 9. Can I install the software on both my laptop and PC? Some Microsoft EULAs do allow the primary user of a product to install one additional copy of that product on their laptop computer for their exclusive use. This however, does not apply to OEM licenses obtained with the purchase of many new computers. Such licenses are single-use licenses and cannot be transferred to another PC. 10. Once I activate my product, then what? Once the product is activated, the user will have full functionality of the software. Periodically the software does check to see if it is activated and if it is still installed on the same computer on which it was originally activated. If the product detects that it isn't activated or that it is on a different computer than on which it was originally activated, the product will cease to fully function and reactivation will be required.
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