Free software that will show my hardware specs?

Superman · Post by **Superman** » 2007-10-14 06:20am

Anyone know of any free software that will show me exactly what hardware my notebook is running?

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-10-14 07:44am

try Belarc. Gives a report of hardware, user accounts, Windows upates, and a list of all installed software.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2007-10-14 10:32am

SiSoft Sandra is, or at least used to be, free for personal use and it will give you all sorts of details and benchmarks.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-10-14 11:33am

I've found SIW to be handy. No installation required and a very small footprint.

Netko · Post by **Netko** » 2007-10-14 01:55pm

CPU-Z is the standard for CPU, motherboard and memory information - it, however, lacks facilities for graphics card and peripheral info, as well as the software data. In its niche, however, it provides probably the most detailed overview while being extremely lightweight.

EDIT: For filling in those gaps, the integrated Windows System Information tool is more then sufficient.

Joviwan · Post by **Joviwan** » 2007-10-14 01:57pm

Running dxdiag is always a good baseline for trying to work out what you've got, before installing strange, foreign programs. Start->Run->dxdiag.

Unless you don't have DirectX. It's a little harder, then.