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\nThe first free system information program is the venerable Belarc Advisor. It’s still free and it’s still works great. It gives you all the information about your computer you’ll ever need – and it even lets you create a page showing complete details about your system.<\/p>\n
Here are some details from Belarc’s Web site:<\/p>\n
“The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Operating Systems: Runs on Windows 7, 2008 R2, Vista, 2008, 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4, Me, 98, and 95. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows are supported.<\/p>\n Browsers: Runs on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and many others.<\/p>\n File size: 2798 KB.<\/p>\n License: The license associated with this product allows for free personal use only. Use on multiple PCs in a corporate, educational, military or government installation is prohibited. See the license agreement for details….”<\/em><\/p>\n Belarc Advisor Works on Windows XP, Vista and Seven – 32bit and 64bit.<\/p>\n You can get more information and\/or download Belarc Advisor free from http:\/\/www.belarc.com\/free_download.html<\/a><\/p>\n Then there’s the new kid on the block – called Speccy. Since Speccy’s developer is not shy with words, we’ll let him tell you about the program:<\/p>\n “What’s in your computer? If you’re like most of us, you can probably name the processor (Intel or AMD, Celeron or Pentium), maybe how much RAM it has, and maybe how big the hard drive is. <\/em><\/p>\n * Processor brand and model Two or three years later, when it comes time to upgrade your computer, that tag or sticker may be long gone. Speccy was designed as a free electronic “what’s inside” sticker for your PC. Yes and no. Some of the basic information can be found by right-clicking My Computer and then clicking Properties. The General tab lists some statistics, and the Device Manager on the Hardware tab lists all of the hardware you’ve got installed. But it misses out lots of information that you need.<\/p>\n Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there’s a problem!<\/p>\n Why do I need Speccy?<\/p>\n At first glance, Speccy may seem like an application for system administrators and power users. It certainly is, but Speccy can also help normal users, in everyday computing life.\u00a0If you need to add more memory to your system, for example, you can check how many memory slots your computer has and what memory’s already installed. Then you can go out and buy the right type of memory to add on or replace what you’ve already got.<\/p>\n If you’re going to be selling your PC, you can use Speccy to quickly list out the components. Or, if you’re buying a PC, you can use Speccy to check that the computer has what the label says it has.<\/p>\n Also, Speccy comes in handy for support. If you’re on the phone with technical support and they want to know what video card you have installed, there’s no need to hunt around Windows. Speccy has all the information on one easy-to-understand screen.”<\/em><\/p>\n Well, we can’t add much more to that! We tested Speccy and it has a much more modern interface and it provides a nicer user experience than Belarc – but when it comes to formatting a printable output, Belarc provides a more nicely formatted printable page.<\/p>\n Speccy works on XP, Vista, and Seven – 32bit and 64bit.<\/p>\n You can get more information and\/or download Speccy from Again this week, we had one of our loyal subscribers send us a copy of a competing Windows newsletter who sent a special email to subscribers offering a “special deal” on a system information tool for $9.95 . Well that’s great, but since there are free system information tools that do the same things and provide the same\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[76,7,6,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSpeccy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2011\/speccy.png\")
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\nWhen you go to a computer store and see all the bright shiny PCs laid out next to each other, most will have tags or stickers indicating the:<\/em><\/p>\n
\n* Hard drive size and speed
\n* Amount of memory (RAM)
\n* Graphics card
\n* Operating system<\/p>\n
\nIsn’t this information in Windows?<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.piriform.com\/speccy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"