{"id":8469,"date":"2010-02-10T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=8469"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:10:09","slug":"find-technical-specifications-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/find-technical-specifications-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Technical Specifications of your PC Hardware &#038; Software Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin felt that his Laptop was slow and was planning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/upgrade-laptops-ram\/\">upgrade his RAM<\/a> from the current state and was worried if the Laptop Servicing company would just scam him, because he does not have any information on the current specifications of the Hardware of his Laptop and if there is a solution for this without actually physically opening the Laptop and then get full detailed information. Even if you go for a Physical checkup, it would still be hard to find out whats the type of RAM because that&#8217;s also available in different types like SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 etc and if a software or tool can give all this information, then it would be great. This can be the same situation when you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/upgrade-laptops-hard-disk\/\">Upgrade Laptops Hard Disk Drive<\/a> or any other hardware components like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/upgrade-motherboard\/\">motherboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download &#038; Install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtopala.com\/download\/siw-setup.exe\">SIW<\/a> which is a free application useful to solve all the above listed problems and also useful when you want to share your computer&#8217;s hardware specifications to others, like the case where in you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/sell-used-laptop-price-quote\/\">sell your laptop<\/a>. The moment you start the software, it will initialize and take a few seconds to minutes to find out all the details and then create reports. The main screen would be as shown below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8471\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/System-Information-Windows.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/System-Information-Windows-300x162.png?resize=300%2C162\" alt=\"System Information Windows\" title=\"System Information Windows\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/System-Information-Windows.png?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/System-Information-Windows.png?resize=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/System-Information-Windows.png?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/System-Information-Windows.png?w=1616&amp;ssl=1 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">System Information Windows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The moment you click on any of the option on the left side menu, it would take a few seconds time to scan down the information and then report back. Iam pretty sure that all the Software related information can be 100% correct but cannot guarantee for the hardware since it may be reported wrongly too. Here is the information for my Laptop.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8472\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Motherboard-System-Hardware.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Motherboard-System-Hardware-300x162.png?resize=300%2C162\" alt=\"Motherboard System Hardware\" title=\"Motherboard System Hardware\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Motherboard-System-Hardware.png?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Motherboard-System-Hardware.png?resize=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Motherboard-System-Hardware.png?resize=150%2C81&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Motherboard-System-Hardware.png?w=1616&amp;ssl=1 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Motherboard System Hardware<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>System Information Categories :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Software Inventory: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Software Licenses (Product Keys \/ Serial Numbers \/ CD Key), Secrets (Password Recovery).<\/li>\n<li>Hardware Inventory: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI\/AGP, USB and ISA\/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD\/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.<\/li>\n<li>Network Information: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.<\/li>\n<li>Network Tools: MAC Address Changer, Neighborhood Scan, Ping, Trace, Statistics<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous Tools: Eureka! (Reveal lost passwords hidden behind asterisks), Monitor Test, Shutdown \/ Restart.<\/li>\n<li>Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You also have a option to create report file which can be sent to anyone, because the software allows you to generate the report in multiple formats like .html, .txt. .csv etc I tried out to create a report in .html format and it took around 5 minutes time to process all the information and list it.<\/p>\n<p>Another important use of this software is that it would report all the attached hardware information and software information based on which you can easily find the right missing drivers and solve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/automatically-detect-fix-driver-problems\/\">driver problems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin felt that his Laptop was slow and was planning to upgrade his RAM from the current state and was worried if the Laptop Servicing company would just scam him, because he does not have any information on the current specifications of the Hardware of his Laptop and if there is a solution for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-software","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/System-Information-Windows-300x162.png?fit=300%2C162&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10039,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/usb-device-not-recognized-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":8469,"position":0},"title":"Fixed : USB Device Not Recognized Error in Windows","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"April 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Whenever i plug-in my External Hard Disk Drive into my Laptop i get a error which says 'USB Device Not Recognized' and this bugs me a lot because i need to access some important data on my computer and this error is not being fixed even if i restart the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Tech FAQ&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Tech FAQ","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/category\/faq\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"USB Device Not Recognized","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/USB-Device-Not-Recognized.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":850,"url":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/acer-travelmate-6292-laptop\/","url_meta":{"origin":8469,"position":1},"title":"Acer TravelMate 6292 Laptop Review","author":"Amit Bhawani","date":"July 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"There are notebooks which are specific for corporate users and while looking for such notebooks the user has to change his perspective. 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