System profiler

A system profiler is a program that can provide detailed information about the software installed and hardware attached to the computer. In older versions of Apple Computer's Mac OS, this was done by an application called Apple System Profiler. Mac OS X's profiler is simply called System Profiler. In Microsoft Windows some similar information may be found by getting properties on My Computer on the desktop.

Contents 1 List of system profiler software 1.1 Microsoft Windows 1.2 Linux 1.3 DOS 1.4 OS Independent 2 See also

[edit] List of system profiler software

[edit] Microsoft Windows

• Sisoft SANDRA (System Analyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) system profiling software
• HWiNFO32 - Freeware system information tool.
• Lavalys EVEREST Ultimate Edition (formerly AIDA32) - Shareware System information and benchmarking tool.
• FreshDiagnose - Freeware system information tool.
• CPU-Z, useful when overclocking processors
• SIW - System Information for Windows - portable freeware (does not require installation) - software, hardware, network information, tools and real-time monitors
• Belarc Freeware for personal use PC Auditing Software lists hardware, as well as software installed on the local machine and displays as a local webpage. Belarc also makes a security assessment for checking how secure a system is, and links missing updates directly to a Microsoft website for download.
• systeminfo native windows command line, returns OS version, uptime, CPU, physical memory, network cards, etc ...
• msinfo32 or winmsd comprehensive view of hardware, system components, and software environment
• PsInfo command line, from the Sysinternals suite
• SekChek Local - an automated security audit tool which scans multiple Windows workstations and servers, from the network. It creates a security assessment report file which is presented as an Microsoft Access dataset.
• CPU Speed Pro is a Microsoft Windows software application which will test the speed of the central processing unit (CPU)

[edit] Linux

• LSHW
• HardInfo
• SekChek Classic - The UNIX extract tool extracts control data regarding security policies and objects defined on the target host.

[edit] DOS

• HWiNFO - still updated DOS version of HWiNFO32

[edit] OS Independent

• Hardware Detection Tool (HDT)

[edit] See also

• Microsoft Diagnostics
• System monitor

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