hello sir,

I will apologize in advance if I might come off as an annoyance of a new member, however here is my issue: I really need to be able to understand fully how the licensing key works for CPUGenie, as I tend to re-image my hard drive — and those of individuals who I help out computer-wise, on a regular enough basis. The hardware remains unchanged of course, unless a hard drive should die and require replacement, or should I be ‘greedy’ enough for an upgrade (that SDD is coming sometime very soon to my ThinkPad grin; it’s just the image that changes. I have been using a comparable product on Macintosh, “CoolBook” which is hardware dependent for its licensing as well. The program allows the licensee to re-image their hard drive innumerable times provided the hardware remains unchanged. The same seems to go for such large commercial products as Microsoft Office as well, as an example. So here is my question: can I format and restore from a disk backup my HDD, or format a new one (ie: hello SDD) without driving the lovely people at GreenVantage up the wall and off their right minds in constantly requiring new licensing keys. The hardware fingerprint number upon which this all hinges seems to change whenever I re-image the HDD, even though all other variables have remained unaltered.

I thank you all for your help and patience. Kind regards,