Ever wanted to check your Computer’s Hardware Components? WITHOUT OPENING YOUR PC WITH THE SOFTWARE

Well, Windows itself has a shortcut tool allowing you to peek inside the box.

1. Press WinKey + R.
2. In the Run box, type msinfo32.exe
3. Click the Ok button.
4. The System Informaton windows opens.

Note: In the left hand section clicking the + button opens additional details.

Taking a Peek!

The Device Manager contains a lot of useful information but lacks detail. For example suppose you want information on the RAM installed on your computer, whether you have any free slots how do you find out apart from opening up the computer itself.

The answer to this is to download a useful little tool called Speccy. Speccy is a sophisticated System Information tool for your PC.

It is available from this WebSite: http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard

Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Its opening screen displays a Summary of all components in the right hand side of its screen. On the left is a list of individual components. Clicking on each one opens a new windows detailing information on the component selected.

Here is the opening screen for Speccy.

Summary of My Computer's Hardware

In the next screen I checked on the RAM on board.

Details of the RAM on my computer

This is a very handy little tool one worth adding to your collection. As a matter of interest, the same website Piriform has other goodies – Ccleaner (Optimization and Cleaning), Defraggler (Disk Defragmentation) and Recuva (File Recovery).

As yet I haven’t checked these other applications!