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 GUIDs are used for a number of purposes in Windows, most notably to identify a **COM interface** (IID) or **class** (CLSID); in those cases you must discover the correct value to use from Microsoft's documentation.\\ \\  GUIDs are also useful whenever you need to identify something uniquely. For example in the article [[/Detecting%20a%20second%20instance%20of%20a%20program|Detecting a second instance of a program]] it is suggested that a GUID be used as the **UniqueLockName**. In such cases it is up to you to create a GUID for the purpose.\\ \\  There is no guarantee that a GUID is genuinely unique, but statistically the likelihood of any two being the same is small. Whilst you could simply make up your own 128-bit number 'at random' (whatever that means) it is far better to use one of the means provided specially for the purpose. One is the following website, which will create a new GUID on request: http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen.\\ \\  An alternative method is to use your own program. The code below will generate a new GUID whenever you need one:\\ \\  GUIDs are used for a number of purposes in Windows, most notably to identify a **COM interface** (IID) or **class** (CLSID); in those cases you must discover the correct value to use from Microsoft's documentation.\\ \\  GUIDs are also useful whenever you need to identify something uniquely. For example in the article [[/Detecting%20a%20second%20instance%20of%20a%20program|Detecting a second instance of a program]] it is suggested that a GUID be used as the **UniqueLockName**. In such cases it is up to you to create a GUID for the purpose.\\ \\  There is no guarantee that a GUID is genuinely unique, but statistically the likelihood of any two being the same is small. Whilst you could simply make up your own 128-bit number 'at random' (whatever that means) it is far better to use one of the means provided specially for the purpose. One is the following website, which will create a new GUID on request: http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen.\\ \\  An alternative method is to use your own program. The code below will generate a new GUID whenever you need one:\\ \\ 
 +<code bb4w>
         SYS "LoadLibrary", "OLE32.DLL" TO ole32%         SYS "LoadLibrary", "OLE32.DLL" TO ole32%
         SYS "GetProcAddress", ole32%, "CoCreateGuid" TO CoCreateGuid%         SYS "GetProcAddress", ole32%, "CoCreateGuid" TO CoCreateGuid%
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         SYS "WideCharToMultiByte", 0, 0, guidw%, -1, guida%, 40, 0, 0         SYS "WideCharToMultiByte", 0, 0, guidw%, -1, guida%, 40, 0, 0
         PRINT $$guida%         PRINT $$guida%
 +</code>
 The GUID is available as a 128-bit number in the structure **guid{}**, as a Unicode (16-bit) string at **guidw%** and as a NUL-terminated ANSI (8-bit) string at **guida%**. The GUID is available as a 128-bit number in the structure **guid{}**, as a Unicode (16-bit) string at **guidw%** and as a NUL-terminated ANSI (8-bit) string at **guida%**.
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