System Info

There are different brands around the world specialized in computer hardware technology, with an abundance of products on the market. This means there’s little chance of finding two similar computers, and thorough info might be required for complex tasks. As such, System Info can show general information about your computer to help with your work.

The application comes in a pretty lightweight package, and you’re not even taken through a setup process to make it work. What you do need to check for is .NET Framework, because it’s a mandatory requirement for functionality. You can keep the program on a thumb drive to always have a system info tool ready.

Results are delivered as soon as you run the application. Don’t let the visual design disappoint you though. The style is pretty rough, but this simplicity makes everything clearly visible, even though it would have been useful to see a better distribution of info based on hardware component categories.

You’re mostly put up against info regarding CPU and memory. Various lines are used to tell active processor mask, allocation granularity, CPU type, level value, and revision, available page file, physical and virtual memory, usage, and several more details. Note, however, that these are not automatically updated, but hitting “OK” refreshes the whole thing.

Chances are you don’t really make any use of these values. Modern hardware components might not be properly read, which has a considerable impact on overall practicality. There’s no direct export options, but you can go ahead and select all text entries to send to clipboard.

Bottom line is that the better you know your computer, the easier it is to find appropriate tools, drivers, and components for it. System Info is a straightforward tool which aims to help in this regard, but it’s not entirely reliable since it can’t properly read data on modern components.