In my opinion this problem cannot be solved in a single pass. I mean, if you want to restrict the user to install the appliction to a single machine you need to know something of the machine and tailor / enable your application to it. That is to say, you cannot solve this problem inside the setup program as it requires an interaction between you -the developer- and the end user.
What you may want to do is somehing in the line NI has used with CVI installation: in the fisrt run the application:
- checks some location (the registry) for license informations
- if found, validates them
- if not found, generates a "signature" of the machine so that you can produce license informations to install in the target system
System signature can be generate using unique IDs stored in the machine: here some links to useful discussions:
How to get hardware informations using LabWindows
Is it possible to retrive the motherboard/hard disk ID through Labwindows CVI 7.0
Obtaining MAC address
I havo no special clues at the moment on generating machine signature: I guess the problem is to obtain a unique value, but as far as I can understand the possibility to have different PCs in the same location with similar disk S/N and/or MAC addresses is *very* low
Regarding where/how to store informations in the registry, this discussion can help you in addressing this item on VISTA machines; I suppose this will apply as well to Win7 boxes.
