protecting software to run only on one computer in vb.net

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Published on 2010-03-04T14:19:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 10:44 UTC
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I have developed a small application and now i want to protect it.

I want to run it only on my own computer and i have developed it for myself.

How can i do that?

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