Where does it show details about my hardware in XP?

I'm getting ready to have a huge computer sale to get rid of everything
computer related. Over the years I acquired alot of machines that I
fixed or made useful. Most are old and probably worth little, but they
all must go, for whatever I can get.

The problem is that I cant remember how much ram I installed or the
processor type on most of them. Some have it written, others dont. On
those older machines that have hard drives, I can install Win98 and find
out the specs. (Then I'll format the drive).

But I have one newer computer which once had Vista on it, before I got
it. This is probably the only computer that is worth some bucks. It has
XP installed (just the OS, no other programs except those that come with
XP). It seems to me that XP has some sort of built in software that will
tell me the specs, such as processor type and speed, RAM, video card
details, hard drive space (I do know the HD size), and more.....

What .EXE file do I click on to bring this thing up?

I thought it was part of Control Panel, but I sure cant find it in
there!

Thanks

wrote:
I'm getting ready to have a huge computer sale to get rid of
everything computer related. Over the years I acquired alot of
machines that I fixed or made useful. Most are old and probably worth
little, but they all must go, for whatever I can get.

The problem is that I cant remember how much ram I installed or the
processor type on most of them. Some have it written, others dont. On
those older machines that have hard drives, I can install Win98 and
find out the specs. (Then I'll format the drive).

But I have one newer computer which once had Vista on it, before I got
it. This is probably the only computer that is worth some bucks. It
has XP installed (just the OS, no other programs except those that
come with XP). It seems to me that XP has some sort of built in
software that will tell me the specs, such as processor type and
speed, RAM, video card details, hard drive space (I do know the HD
size), and more.....

What .EXE file do I click on to bring this thing up?

I thought it was part of Control Panel, but I sure cant find it in
there!

Control panel - System will get you the basics. Processor, Ram, OS.
Right click the drive in My computer or windows explorer, then properties, for
the drive size and free space.

In message , Bob F
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Control panel - System will get you the basics. Processor, Ram, OS.

Yes - once you get System, the Hardware tab has a Device Manager button
that will give you what you're familiar with from Windows '9x.

Right click the drive in My computer or windows explorer, then properties, for
the drive size and free space.


Task Manager (select it from right-click on empty part of taskbar, or
from Ctrl-Alt-Delete) will also show RAM - under the Performance tab,
Physical Memory Total.
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On
those older machines that have hard drives, I can install Win98 and find
out the specs. (Then I'll format the drive).

maybe is better if you run a linux live system (older versions) from cd
or usb and get the info (install and reformat takes *longer* time)

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In addition to what others have said, the free
CPUID is nice to have. It will tell you a lot of
info clearly.

I also have a VBScript I wrote that collects info
via the Windows Management Instrumentation
interfaces. If you want to try that, copy the
following into Notepad. (Watch out for wordwrap
caused by the posting.) Save it as system info.vbs.
Run it. It will write a file named sysinfo.txt in C:\.
(WMI is a system of Windows libraries designed
for system administrators. It's the basis of many
system info tools.)

' begin script ---------------------


Dim WMI, Col, Ob, S2, i2, s3, sFil, sBul, sLine

'-- path to save data. ------------------
sFil = "C:\Sysinfo.txt"

sBul = " " & Chr(149) & " "
sLine = vbCrLf & "_____________________________________________ " & vbCrLf &
vbCrLf

Err.Clear
On Error Resume Next

Set WMI = GetObject("WinMgmts:")

If (Err.number 0) Then
MsgBox "Error creating WMI object. Error: " & Err.Number & " - " &
Err.Description
WScript.quit
End If


'-------------- product ------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystemProduct")
S2 = S2 & sBul & " Product Info:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Product Name: " & Ob.Name & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Product Version: " & Ob.Version & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Product Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "IdentifyingNumber: " & Ob.IdentifyingNumber & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Product UUID: " & Ob.UUID & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine


'-- box
id --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SystemEnclosure")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Machine ID (SystemEnclosure) info:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Part Number: " & Ob.PartNumber & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Serial Number: " & Ob.SerialNumber & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Asset Tag: " & Ob.SMBIOSAssetTag & vbCrLf
Next

S2 = S2 & sLine

'--
motherboard --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_MotherboardDevice")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Motherboard info:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Caption: " & Ob.Caption & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "InstallDate: " & Ob.InstallDate & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "DeviceID: " & Ob.DeviceID & vbclrf
Next
S2 = S2 & vbCrLf

'----------- bios -----------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BIOS")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "BIOS info:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Version: " & Ob.Version & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "InstallDate: " & Ob.InstallDate & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "SerialNumber: " & Ob.SerialNumber & vbCrLf

Next
S2 = S2 & sLine


'--
CPU --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Processor")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "CPU:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Name: " & Ob.Name & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Speed: " & Ob.MaxClockSpeed & sLine
Next

'-- RAM and product
info. --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Installed RAM: "
For Each Ob in Col
i2 = Ob.TotalPhysicalMemory
If i2 0 Then
i2 = i2 \ 1024 \ 1024
S2 = S2 & CStr(i2) & " MB" & vbCrLf
End If
S2 = S2 & sLine
Next

S2 = S2 & sBul & "PC Info.:" & vbCrLf &vbCrLf

For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "PC or motherboard model: " & Ob.Model & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "System name: " & Ob.Name & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "System Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine

'---------- onboard devices ----------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OnBoardDevice")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Onboard devices:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Name: " & Ob.Name & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Model: " & Ob.Model & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine

'--
graphics --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_VideoController")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Graphics:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Name: " & Ob.Name & vbCrLf
i2 = Ob.AdapterRAM
If i2 0 Then
i2 = i2 \ 1024 \ 1024
S2 = S2 & "RAM: " & " MB" & vbCrLf
End If
S2 = S2 & "Driver Date: " & Ob.DriverDate & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Driver Version: " & Ob.DriverVersion & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine

'-- hard
disks --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DiskDrive")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Drives:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Model: " & Ob.Model & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "InterfaceType: " & Ob.InterfaceType & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "MediaType: " & Ob.MediaType & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "DeviceID: " & Ob.DeviceID & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Number of Win Partitions: " & Ob.Partitions & vbCrLf
s3 = CStr(Ob.Size)
If Len(s3) 9 Then
s3 = Left(s3, (len(s3) - 9))
S2 = S2 & "Size (GB): " & s3
End If
S2 = S2 & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine

'-- CD/DVD
drives --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_CDROMDrive")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "CD/DVD drives:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Caption: " & Ob.Caption & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine

'-- network
adapter --------------------------------------------------------------------

Set Col = WMI.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapter")
S2 = S2 & sBul & "Network Adapter:" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
For Each Ob in Col
S2 = S2 & "Description: " & Ob.Description & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Name: " & Ob.ProductName & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "Manufacturer: " & Ob.Manufacturer & vbCrLf
S2 = S2 & "MAC Address: " & Ob.MACAddress & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
Next
S2 = S2 & sLine

Set Col = Nothing
Set WMI = Nothing

Dim FSO, TS
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set TS = FSO.CreateTextFile(sFil, True)
TS.Write S2
TS.Close
Set TS = Nothing
Set FSO = Nothing
MsgBox "Done."

' end script --------------------------------

One note on RAM: WinXP only sees 3+ GB. My
XP box with 4 GB reports that it has 2.4 GB RAM
using the WMI method. I think that's because
something like 800 MB are allocated to graphics.
CPUID, on the other hand, correctly tells me I
have 4 GB RAM. (Though I guess "correct" is
open to interpretation. One correctly tells me
how much RAM XP functionally has. The other
correctly tells me what the RAM stick itself is.

wrote in message
...

I'm getting ready to have a huge computer sale to get rid of everything
computer related. Over the years I acquired alot of machines . . .
The problem is that I cant remember how much ram I installed or the
processor type on most of them.
. . .
What .EXE file do I click on to bring this thing up?

The Belarc utility (www.belarc.com) may be the quickest
way to create a table of all hardware and software configurations
of several PCs offered for sale (i.e. quicker than running MSINFO32
on each in turn.)
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:09:53 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
wrote:

wrote in message
.. .

I'm getting ready to have a huge computer sale to get rid of everything
computer related. Over the years I acquired alot of machines . . .
The problem is that I cant remember how much ram I installed or the
processor type on most of them.
. . .
What .EXE file do I click on to bring this thing up?

The Belarc utility (www.belarc.com) may be the quickest
way to create a table of all hardware and software configurations
of several PCs offered for sale (i.e. quicker than running MSINFO32
on each in turn.)

MSINFO32 is the thing I was looking for. That tells me what I need. I
also ran CPU-ID, even though it's an older version for Win98, (copied
from my Win98 machine). Both tell me the same results.

According to this, I have a AMD Sempron 3300+ Palermo 34 Socket 754
processor. I dont know how many cores that is???? I thought it was a
quad core, but neither of these programs tell me.

It also has 1536 M bytes RAM (1.5 Gigs of Ram).
Two DDR strips one is 1G the other is .5G.

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 405 video card.

Mainboard Manufacturer ECS Model GF6100-M754

Bios - Phoenix 6.00 PG
Dated 06/19/2008

That pretty much tells me what I needed....

Just curious, (not that I intend to install it), but would this computer
run Windows 7 ?

Thanks for all help!

wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:09:53 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
wrote:

wrote in message
...

I'm getting ready to have a huge computer sale to get rid of everything
computer related. Over the years I acquired alot of machines . . .
The problem is that I cant remember how much ram I installed or the
processor type on most of them.
. . .
What .EXE file do I click on to bring this thing up?
The Belarc utility (www.belarc.com) may be the quickest
way to create a table of all hardware and software configurations
of several PCs offered for sale (i.e. quicker than running MSINFO32
on each in turn.)

MSINFO32 is the thing I was looking for. That tells me what I need. I
also ran CPU-ID, even though it's an older version for Win98, (copied
from my Win98 machine). Both tell me the same results.

According to this, I have a AMD Sempron 3300+ Palermo 34 Socket 754
processor. I dont know how many cores that is???? I thought it was a
quad core, but neither of these programs tell me.

It also has 1536 M bytes RAM (1.5 Gigs of Ram).
Two DDR strips one is 1G the other is .5G.

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 nForce 405 video card.

Mainboard Manufacturer ECS Model GF6100-M754

Bios - Phoenix 6.00 PG
Dated 06/19/2008

That pretty much tells me what I needed....

Just curious, (not that I intend to install it), but would this computer
run Windows 7 ?

Thanks for all help!



This could be your CPU.

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD...300BXBOX).html

The number of cores 1
The number of threads 1

MMX instructions
3DNow! technology
SSE / Streaming SIMD Extensions
SSE2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 2
SSE3 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 3
AMD64 / AMD 64-bit technology ?
EVP / Enhanced Virus Protection

NX bit/XD-bit
Physical address extensions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7

1Ghz processor minimum
1GB RAM for x32, 2GB of RAM for x64 OS (1.5GB would be fine...)
DX9 and enough video card RAM, if you want Aero graphics effects

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8

Same as Win7 plus...

PAE, NX, SSE2 --- seem to be in the list

CMPXCHG16B for Win8.1 x64
(Check with Coreinfo CX16
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...rnals/cc835722 )

With a single core processor, I would not give
a strong recommendation to this plan. I have a
Windows 7 laptop with about the same level of power,
and it's a tossup (feels slow at times). Depends on
your tolerance I guess :-) You would not need to load
too much bloated software on it, before it would lag.
I would recommend a dual core, for a bit of extra pep.
Then, when Windows Update rails a core for 40 minutes,
there is still one core left :-)

HTH,
Paul

| According to this, I have a AMD Sempron 3300+ Palermo 34 Socket 754
| processor. I dont know how many cores that is???? I thought it was a
| quad core, but neither of these programs tell me.
|

CPUID tells the number of cores, as well as the
speed per core. If it's supposed to be quad
and you only see a single core reported then
you may have an XP system that started out
on a single core. Updating from single- to multi-core
with the same install of XP requires several steps
to replace the copy of hal.dll used.