Here’s a selection of freeware tools to help you extract the information you’re looking for. ![]() Thankfully there are several around that can handle this and can range from giving you a general overview of the system components, to comprehensive in depth details of a single component such as the CPU or graphics card. For a much better idea relating to the specification of yours or somebody else’s computer hardware, a 3rd party utility is the way to go. It can be frustrating when you’re troubleshooting and ask someone if they can tell you something like how much or what speed RAM they have installed, or what graphics chip is present and they don’t have a clue what they have or how to get you the relevant information. For instance, if you want to know the important details about your processor, graphics card, memory speeds, motherboard chipset and BIOS etc, it has to be obtained from somewhere else. Something like MSInfo32 would offer some useful snippets of information about several different system components although it’s by no means complete. Knowing what hardware is present inside your computer by using just the tools present inside Windows might give you some idea, but it won’t be terribly informative. ![]()
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