When you're asked for your PC, you know that more than "is a Windows"? Have you ever cried about not being able to know how was your PC while still working well? "I've never cast a glance at your PC while wondering if the store would have given you no pig in a poke? Ever get mad trying to find information about the characteristics or state a PC on the other side of the phone and managed by a user who is going to turn right and move the mouse?
Well for all this and more is what they are for the computer audit programs , you say everything on your computer at the touch of a button. I will recommend the three that I most use lately:
- WinAudit .- Of which include its ease of use: an audit and another button to save the report to a file, if you want. Easier to think it's impossible. And besides, in English. (Download: WinAudit for XP, unicode version.) PC Wizard
- .- As good things say it is these friends who I've talked to some other time (CPU-Z ), and the program incorporates some performance tests of the system. As bad thing I will say that I found using some versions in some circumstances with a stability problem. If not for this would be my favorite. (Download: PC Wizard , portable version.)
- System Info .- It has, in my opinion the best categorized interface. E incorporates a menu with various tools, you do not know whether to cite as positive or negative for the little use or respect I found them (although it does perhaps you find it.) Today, is my favorite. (Download: System Information for Windows, version portable and multilingual.)
That said, it is worthwhile to try the three things you can do without any fear: all three are freeware and all three are applications portable (ie do not require installation). The three will give you comprehensive information about your system, not just the hardware (motherboard, chipset, processor, memory, BIOS, video card, monitor, network cards, disks, peripherals, ports ...) but also software (OS, applications, running processes, libraries, OLE items, updates, fonts, startup, ...), network services (configuration, connections ...) and some things from a long list of additional options (sensors temperature, sessions, users, files, codecs, drivers ...).
The three will give you the option to save the report to a file, which is going very well so you can compare how your computer now and how it was for eight months (if you're keeping reports from time to time), so you can know certain information on a computer is off or unavailable (if you keep the reports in the right place), or perhaps can save you a trip to that store far so good and when (once there) the clerk asks you what's "and how many megs is the unified flinster esfurullo of your PC?".
also going well as teaching materials. Are you among those who believe that the computer consists only of a monitor, keyboard and mouse, you could really take a look at the number of pages occupied by the bells and whistles (one of them!) Actually gossip, so you can make sense of the complexity of the real thing. As a general culture, is simply an essential activity - I think. And if you go a step beyond the general culture, it will be much easier to see the "guts" of your computer running one of these programs by simply using a screwdriver.
And finally, I must remind you that these programs that expose the intimacies of the PC to function normally require the highest privileges (administrator): if not run as an administrator, you may not work or you malfunction. And I remind you that if you're on a machine shared by multiple users and, for whatever reason, you are in a session without administrator privileges, do not need to close your session to run: to run a program as an administrator to be in unprivileged session administrator, simply take the shortcut menu (PBD on the executable), choose "Run as ..." and put a user with administrator privileges.
