Speccy Gives You Detailed Information About Your Hardware

[safeguy]

Speccy Gives You Detailed Information About Your Hardware

Windows only: Planning an upgrade soon? Save yourself the web searches for your specs and download Speccy. Speccy does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear that's in your computer.

Source: Lifehacker

Speccy looks interesting, isn't it? And the fact that it comes from Piriform, the same company that brings to you CCleaner, makes it more appealing.

If you want, you can download it from here:

Download EXE Installer (1.11MB): spsetup100.exe
Download ZIP Portable (1.29MB): spsetup100.zip

P.S. This is still a beta version of Speccy. So, there might still be bugs. I don't recommend installing it on a work machine...

[solucky]

It's so great, very clear, but please look at here http://forum.raymond.cc/freebies/15587-speccy-system-information-tool.html

[safeguy]

I missed that one...I didn't know ha14 had mentioned it before. I thought I was the first to post this...nay never mind. Sorry. I should have checked b4 I posted.

[samba_siva_raju]

P.S. This is still a beta
version of Speccy. So, there might still be bugs. I don't recommend installing it on a work machine...

Belarc Advisor is also similar type of tool. It builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.

[vickypark]

another good job from piriform

[hellnoire]

Samba, Belarc isn't portable, so to me, it's useless. A lot of apps that work this way, are useless to me. I need portable versions, because I use them with my toolkits to fix and upgrade people's PCs.

Now, the other thing is, does this actually save the report that it gives you? Because I have a tool I use that does the same thing, and allows you to save the reports in TXT, HTML, or if you have a PDF printer installed, PDF. If it doesn't, Piriform should get to work right on it.

[samba_siva_raju]

Samba, Belarc isn't portable, so to me, it's useless. A lot of apps that work this way, are useless to me. I need portable versions, because I use them with my toolkits to fix and upgrade people's PCs.

Now, the other thing is, does this actually save the report that it gives you? Because I have a tool I use that does the same thing, and allows you to save the reports in TXT, HTML, or if you have a PDF printer installed, PDF. If it doesn't, Piriform should get to work right on it.

Well I haven't used any other tool so far except this one and I am not expert in these tools to judge whether it is portable or not. My recommendation (Belarc) was for all those who are scary to experiment with beta versions.

coming to your 2nd point definitely it stores output in html format under below directory. C:\Program Files\Belarc\Advisor\System\tmp\(*******).html

BTW have you ever tried Belarc and any other better alternatives for this?

[hellnoire]

I've tried and used Belarc many times, Samba. It's actually a requirement to use it in one of my classes at school. Your recommendation is correct if people don't want to run Beta software, and for that, I agree.

I was refering to Speccy for my second point. Belarc, I just save the output to my desktop and print off. Or if someone is using it on a remote PC, I ask them to do that for me.

The alternatives to both Belarc and Speccy I like at the moment, are AIDA32, and SIW, both freeware. System Spec is also another good one that's portable, and last, but certainly not least, WinAudit would be the next best thing to Belarc that's portable. SIW and AIDA32 provide more information at first glance, though, and both have worked for me consistently on the operating systems I've used.... minus Linux of course, but it has it's own built-in tool.

And while none of them, as far as I know, find keys, I have keyfinders that do that instead. The price of being portable, I'm afraid. Also, I removed your screenshot of the keys.. even though you blacked them out, I was still able to see parts of them, and I figure it would be better for you to keep your keys

[samba_siva_raju]

thanks for the info. will give try (AIDA32 and SIW)

[hellnoire]

Not a problem, Samba. We learn best from others I do wish Belarc was LEGALLY portable though.