Windows Operating systems starting from Windows XP provides System Information Panel. System Information Panel provides detailed information about the computer hardware, software and operating system.
Open System Information Panel From Start Menu
System Information Panel can be opened in different ways. The most basic and fast way is starting it from Start Menu . After opening Start Menu we can type System Information which will list System Information icon. Then click this icon which will open System Information Panel.
It will look like below.
- Host Name
- OS Name is the name of the operating system which is Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
- OS Version is the release number of the operating system which is 10.0.17134 in this example
- OS Manufacturer
- OS Configuration
- Os Build Type where the processor type which is Multiprocessor in this example
- Registered Owner where the system is provided
- Product ID
- Original Install Date when the OS is installed which is 5/20/2018 in this case
- System Boot Time when the system is booted last time which is 11/15/2018
- System Manufacturer is the hardware creator
- System Model is the version of the hardware
- System Type will show the system type like Phone, Table,PC
- Processor shows the process and detailed information
- BIOS Version will show currently used BIOS which is VMware in this case
- Windows Directory is the operating system path
- System Directory is the core system file path which is
C:\windows\system32in this case - System Locale is the language used by the system
- Input Locale is the keyboard map or layout of the system which is TR or Turkish in this example
- Time Zone will provide current time zone of the system according to UTC which is +3 in this case
Open System Information Panel From Run Command
Another way to open System Information Panel is using command line or Run Command. There is two command which can be run to open System Information Panel. First one is
msinfo32
Open System Information Panel From MSDOS Command Line
Other command is systeminfo command which will run WINDOWS\system32\systeminfo.exe file in command line. This co
We can see that following information is provided with the systeminfo command like below.
- Host Name
- OS Name is the name of the operating system which is Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
- OS Version is the release number of the operating system which is 10.0.17134 in this example
- OS Manufacturer
- OS Configuration
- Os Build Type where the processor type which is Multiprocessor in this example
- Registered Owner where the system is provided
- Product ID
- Original Install Date when the OS is installed which is 5/20/2018 in this case
- System Boot Time when the system is booted last time which is 11/15/2018
- System Manufacturer is the hardware creator
- System Model is the version of the hardware
- System Type will show the system type like Phone, Table,PC
- Processor shows the process and detailed information
- BIOS Version will show currently used BIOS which is VMware in this case
- Windows Directory is the operating system path
- System Directory is the core system file path which is
C:\windows\system32in this case - System Locale is the language used by the system
- Input Locale is the keyboard map or layout of the system which is TR or Turkish in this example
- Time Zone will provide current time zone of the system according to UTC which is +3 in this case
System Summary
System Summary screen will provides general information in a summary mode. This page will provide following useful information.
- `OS Name` operating system name
- `Version` operating system version
- `System Manufacturer` hardware vendor
- `System Type` system architecture like 32 or 64 bit
- `BIOS Mode` UEFI or DOS
- `Windows Directory` where windows operating system files installed
- `Installed Physical Memory RAM` ram size
Hardware Resources
Hardware Resources will provides low level hardware related information those can be listed like below.
- `Conflicts/sharing`
- `DMA` direct memory access
- `Forced Hardware`
- `I/O` input and output devices
- `IRQs` interrupts
- `Memory` as name suggested memory
Components
Components screen will provide information like peripherals like CD-ROM.
- `Multimedia` list audio and video codecs
- `CD-ROM` will list related information.
- `Sound Device` will list sound card information
- `Display` list monitor related information
- `Network` list network interface related information
- `Storage` list disk devices and partitions
- `USB` list usb ports and connected devices
Software Environment
Software information will list information like drivers, running tasks, printing, services etc.
- `System Drivers` list drivers
- `Environment Variables` list environment variables
- `Print Jobs` list printing queue
- `Network Connections` list current network connections
- `Running Tasks` list currently running jobs
- `Loaded Modules` list loaded operating system modules
- `Services` list services and daemons
- `Startup Programs` list startup applications
Generate Report and Save To Text File
We can also save generated information into a file. This file will be a text file for simplicity. We will use following menu File->Save . This will as us a path to save file which will have .nfo extension.
