c++windowshwid

How to get HWID

I am trying to get HWID through the hwProfileInfo class, but it returns me that i can't convert WCHAR [39] to String.

string getHWID(){
  string hardware_guid

  HW_PROFILE_INFO hwProfileInfo;
  GetCurrentHwProfile(&hwProfileInfo);
  hardware_guid = hwProfileInfo.szHwProfileGuid;

  return hardware_guid;
}

Than i tried this way, but it returns me just "{"

hardware_guid = (char*)hwProfileInfo.szHwProfileGuid;

I know there are some more ways in Google, but i didn't find any working variants. May be there are some people, who can say the 100% method?

Solution

  • This is the answer to my question.

    string getHWID(){  
  HW_PROFILE_INFO hwProfileInfo;
  GetCurrentHwProfile(&hwProfileInfo);
  wstring hwidWString = hwProfileInfo.szHwProfileGuid;  
  string hwid(hwidWString.begin(), hwidWString.end());

  return hwid;
}