A Globally Unique IDentifier used to identify a computer, a user, a file, etc for tracking purposes GUIDs are represented as thirty-two hex numbers
Globally Unique Identifier A controversial 16-byte number generated by Microsoft programs that uniquely identifies a network or user or computer or document It is one of the elements of information that can be passed when you connect to an Internet site, and it may be stored in cookies
Globally Unique Identifier A GUID is a string of numbers and/or letters allocated to each individual piece of data within a system, to uniquely differentiate it from other pieces of data
Globally unique identifier In the Component Object Model (COM), a 16-byte code that identifies an interface to an object across all computers and networks
Globally Unique IDentifier A GUID, a Global Unique IDentifier, is a string expression that represents an objects uniqe identity
Identifiers (IDs) assigned to COM objects that are generated through a sophisticated algorithm The algorithm guarantees that all COM objects are assigned unique IDs, avoiding any possibility of a naming conflict, even in distributed systems with millions of objects supplied by different vendors H
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Globally unique identifier A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a adapter, the current date and time, and a sequence number This is used to allow any party to create identifiers that will be guaranteed not to overlap with other similarly created identifiers