Portable HWiNFO32

For those who want to know a computer inside out the first step is finding out what's under the hood. The 'Device Manager' and 'Resource Monitor' utilities that come bundled with your Windows OS are somewhat limited when compared to a tool like Portable HWiNFO32.

With the help of this tool you can view in-depth details about each and every component of your system. It also comes with a wide range of system monitoring capabilities for temperature, fan speed, voltage and power. It even includes a sidebar gadget that you can enable to check out the status of the computer's RAM, CPU, GPU and more.

Thanks to the fact that it doesn't require installation, you are able to quickly get started, and the easy to navigate interface helps you get to the desired information in no time. For every component listed in the main window you can access a plethora of details.

If you only need the system summary, Portable HwiNFO32 will happily oblige as soon as you press the dedicated button. Also, in case you want to save all the information made available by this utility, all you have to do is click on 'Save Report' and then choose the desired output format.

This software comes with a useful pack of benchmarks you can use to assess the performance of several components. You get a set of tests for the processor, physical memory and hard disk. In order to fully customize the running options of the application, you can access the 'Settings' area by choosing 'Configure' from the 'Program' menu.

A breeze to use and providing loads of very technical but also very useful information, Portable HWiNFO32 is a must have tool, especially since you don't have to install it on each computer you or pay to use it. Simply put the program on your pen drive and launch it from there, you simply can't go wrong with it!