I found an amazing little application today as I was working on a client PC. I was looking for something like Belarc Advisor, that Milo just reviewed and I regularly use on PC’s. The problem was I wanted something that didn’t need an installation, but that could just run off of a thumb drive hopefully. I FOUND IT!

As you can see from the image above, you just click the type of information you want inventoried and click “Go”. The great part is that it builds the report into Excel so you can easily work with the data in a format …read more

You are not a geek and could not find your way to various parts and areas of your computer. That’s not a problem as you can always hire a techie and do the looking for you in situations where you need to get information about your box.

Before you go ahead and spend the extra dollars for the techie person, you can download Belarc Advisor which is an application that does all the work for you. It goes through every component of your computer, ask questions from manufactured date, to firmware including the installed software.
Through this application you can save …read more

In a recent post I asked what you readers chose as your preferred security and maintenance tools. These are the applications you consider indispensable when trying to keep your systems in top running shape and secure from the variety of potential attacks and intrusions from nefarious entities found on the intarwebs!
Here’s my list of applications that I used even today as I was cleaning up my family’s desktop PC.

CCleaner which is short for “CRAP” Cleaner. It does a great job of finding all the hidden pieces of installed applications that sometimes don’t get removed with the program’s default uninstall function.

Revo …read more

I was just reminded of a valuable tool for anyone running Windows. It’s a little application that lets you see your product key for Windows. This particular software is from Misc Software and they have a variety of other applications that could be helpful to Windows users as well.
My personal favorite application for this type of information is Belarc Advisor. It provides loads of information about your system. I use this little tool regularly on client machines to get a snapshot of their system for future reference as needed.
Belarc lists information about hardware, patches, printers, users, and product keys so …read more