You reinstalled Windows. This number did not change. 🔒 Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystemProduct | Select-Object UUID That string is burned into your motherboard firmware. Not in Windows. A clean install, a new drive, a new account, a new name: none of it moves that number. Any program you install can read it in that one line. No admin rights, no permission prompt, no notification. The honest boundaries, because this one gets argued about: ・A website cannot read this. Browser fingerprinting is a real but completely separate thing. Installed software is what reaches this ・Where it actually gets used: anti-cheat and software licensing. That is what a "hardware ban" is ・Some manufacturers ship identical or all-zero UUIDs. If yours looks like that, blame the OEM ・There is no command to change it. That is the entire point of the reel "Starting fresh" has a floor. Forty-one things above that floor you actually can change 👻 link in bio. Fan-made parody. NOT affiliated with Adult Swim or Warner Bros. Discovery. #privacy #windows11 #cybersecurity #techtips #pctips #gaming #techhacks #computerscience #rickandmorty #picklerickursion