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How to Use an HWID Spoofer: Before and After You Start

How do you use an HWID spoofer? How to view your identifiers first, what preparation involves and what to check afterwards. A general step-by-step flow.

Published: · 3 min read

The answer to how to use an HWID spoofer has two parts: the preparation you do before running it and the check you do after. This article gives the general flow. For product-specific details our setup guide is the reference; here we draw the big picture without repeating its steps.

1. Note your current identifiers first

To tell whether a change worked you need to know the starting values. Windows shows these with its own tools. Open PowerShell and run the commands you need:

Get-CimInstance Win32_ComputerSystemProduct | Select-Object UUID
Get-CimInstance Win32_BaseBoard | Select-Object Manufacturer, Product, SerialNumber
Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object FriendlyName, SerialNumber
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Save the output to a text file and back it up on another drive or in cloud storage. What an HWID is explains what each of these values means. On some makers the serial number fields are empty or show "Default string"; that is normal.

2. Prepare by following the guide

Our guide is written for Windows 10 and covers, in order:

  • A clean Windows install without internet, deleting the disk partitions instead of formatting.
  • Pausing Windows updates.
  • Changing the BIOS to a different version.
  • Turning off TPM and Secure Boot.
  • Turning off Windows Defender if needed.
  • Final checks: Secure Boot state with msinfo32 and TPM state with tpm.msc.

Each of these steps affects your computer. Power must not be cut during the BIOS step and important files should be backed up first, because every disk is wiped. Follow the maker's official instructions.

3. Ask support for the next step

When the preparation is done, contact support before you install any games. The next step depends on the product you bought. At this stage download the product file only from the site you bought it from and from sources support points you to; do not download applications from ad-filled third-party file sites.

4. Check after you run it

After running the spoofer, run the commands from step 1 again and compare the values with the file you saved. Note what changed and what stayed the same. Not every value has to change; which ones do depends on how the product works. If you see a result different from what you expected, share it with support.

5. Know your way back

Permanent and temporary methods behave differently. With a temporary method the change usually reverts on restart; reinstalling Windows rebuilds the system from scratch. The difference between plan types is in buy a spoofer.

Common mistakes

  • Formatting instead of deleting the disk partitions.
  • Staying online during the install.
  • Turning off only TPM or only Secure Boot in the BIOS.
  • Skipping the final checks.
  • Installing games before the preparation is finished.
  • Starting without saving the original values.

An honest note

No method guarantees a result in every game and every anti-cheat version. Game publishers' rules may forbid avoiding enforcement. The decision and the responsibility for these steps are yours. The sensible thing is to read the whole flow, and decide whether it suits you, before you look at the plans.