Computer_ID

Sure enough you’re looking for better hardware components when upgrading your PC, with general info available for every product up for sale. However, there’s a lot more to your computer than what’s written on the product casing, and with the help of applications like Computer_ID you can find out almost all there is to know.

The application is good to go as soon as you’re done downloading it, with no setup required to make it work. As such, you can store it on a USB flash drive in case you frequently need to grab info from different computers. Although a great deal of data is gathered, system registry entries remain intact, so the target PC doesn’t get affected.

Launching it first brings up a small prompt informing you it can take a bit of time for all details to be gathered. This isn’t really the case, because the scan process is done before you realize. The window shows up as soon as data is grabbed, letting you explore an intuitive workspace split into a navigation panel, and preview area.

An impressive level of detail if put at your disposal, with the application showing general PC info, hard drives, CPU, motherboard, graphics card, network adapters, operating system, codecs, programs, and running services. You can switch the list view to small or big icons, as well as a plain list of all elements.

The preview area only shows details for the selected component. Don’t be fooled by the choice of characters. Even though info is written down in plain text, the structure is neatly organized to delimit all info fields, sections, descriptions, tags, and associated values. Sadly, there’s no built-in option to save info to file, but it is possible to select everything or only strings of interest to send to clipboard.

All things considered, Computer_ID is sure to tell you all you want to know about your computer. This is done in a fast process, with details delivered in an intuitive environment which makes it easy to both navigate through target sections, and to identify data of interest inside the abundance of details.