Monday, September 5, 2011

Obtaining Your System Information

Here is a simple and sweet method for quickly retrieving your computers system information. The system information contains alot of things such as makes and model/serial numbers of hardware device and current versions of different programs. It also lists details regarding your memory capacity for your computer and for your graphics card! Overall knowing how to access your system information can be a helpful thing to know. Whether for yourself or for informing a computer repair man about problems you may be experiencing.

For windows xp all you need to do is click on start, all programs, accessories, system tools, system information. And that's it!

Now the first thing you will see is your summary. That knowledge is important to know for potential computer repair work that may be needed. If the numbers and letters seem confusing to you then you can look up some of these things on the Internet or else there is no need to worry about it. Just as long as you know where to go to tell your computer repair tech support guy about your system information. He will know what they all mean.

Often times clients of mine will need to figure out not only what kind of video 3d graphics card they are running, but how much memory it has to see if they have enough to play a game. This information is also easily obtained in the system information window. Simply click on "components" and then select "display" to pull up all the information regarding your video card. The part which talks about your cards memory capacity is "Adapter Ram" and then a number usually measured in MB or megabytes!

11 comments:

  1. Speccy is a great little app for viewing system information.

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  2. Nice info. I never knew how to do this.

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  3. Great blog.
    Following.

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  4. You can also goto run and type DXDIAG to get information as well as in CMD, you can type SYSTEMINFO to get some information but I believe that info is found in the All programs>accessories>system tools>system information

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  5. Kinda irrelevant cause im on a mac lol

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  6. Very helpful for noobs.. It so happens that i know how to access system information on xp. Looking forward to more like these.. +1 follower

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  7. there's a reason I follow this blog! Another great post, thanks for the info.

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  8. Hello Dude,

    System information is any combination of information technology and people's activities that support operations, management and decision making. In a very broad sense, the term information system is frequently used to refer to the interaction between people, processes, data and technology. Thanks for sharing it.....

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