Anyone knows wich computer ID MT4 uses for activations of market products?

 

Hi,

does anybody know which computer ID is used for activation of market products by MT4? Is it the volume serial number? 

Thanks in advance. I appreciate any suggestions very much. 

 

Where can I see my purchases? 
https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/9950/page70#comment_2564931  

How to Install an Earlier Purchased Application
https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/market/market_buy

How to Start with Metatrader 5
How to Start with Metatrader 5
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I decided to create this thread to help to myself and to the others to start with Metatrader 5...
 
Sergey Golubev:

Where can I see my purchases? 
https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/9950/page70#comment_2564931  

How to Install an Earlier Purchased Application
https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/market/market_buy

Thank you very much for your response. However, some beginner tutorials do not answer the questions. 

I am asking which machine ID is used by MQL to limit the access to a given computer. Is it the hard disk serial number? Or some other machine ID I don't know of yet.

 
Roman Lengert:

Thank you very much for your response. However, some beginner tutorials do not answer the questions.

I am asking which machine ID is used by MQL to limit the access to a given computer. Is it the hard disk serial number? Or some other machine ID I don't know of yet.

it is per hardware and per OS (I am sorry if I understood it wrong).

 
Sergey Golubev:

it is per hardware and per OS (I am sorry if I understood it wrong).

No problem, and thanks for the additional answer. :)

I assumed it was hardware, but not sure if it is the hard disk serial number or some other stuff I never heard of. 

 
This OS relationship will bring a lot of troubles when traders will have to move to Server 2016/2019 when 2012 R2 is out of support. From that point on each major/minor Windows update (twice a year?) requires an additional activation (as it is required with Windows 10 too). Hopefully Metaquotes will provides a solution therefore.
 
Just for the record, I only asked to understand how to protect my own products better since I am a seller myself and concerned with security. 
 
Roman Lengert:
Just for the record, I only asked to understand how to protect my own products better since I am a seller myself and concerned with security. 

Hi please read this.

MQL5 Cloud Protector: Advanced protection for programs - Developing programs - MetaEditor Help
MQL5 Cloud Protector: Advanced protection for programs - Developing programs - MetaEditor Help
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Executable files EX4/EX5 are reliably protected from decompilation. MQL5 Cloud Protector provides an advanced protection level for your applications. A similar method is used in the largest store of trading applications MetaTrader Market, where the EX4/EX5 product files submitted by sellers are additionally compiled to native code. The only...