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 you’re probably familiar with already for data collection.

The application is a single HTML Application (.hta) file that’s only 99KB in size. It runs from a USB drive and works on machines you don’t even have to have admin access rights too. Which was another requirement I had in my search.

System Inventory Lite worked absolutely perfectly for my needs. Don’t get dismayed by the “Lite” portion of the name either. It merely refers to the fact that you can get as much or as little information as you want in your system inventory.

As you can also see, if you have a network of machines and you can access the machines, you can tell the application to grab an inventory off of those networked machines as well.

What an amazing little application in a 99KB package. I couldn’t have asked for much more than this.

Image: Screen grab of Excel spreadsheet and System Inventory Lite interface

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Amazing App With System Inventory Lite

Dad’s got some weird stuff going on with his computer. Odd, random shut-downs, no-Internet connections will work, and it won’t recognize USB drives anymore. It’s been getting slower and slower, so I’m suggesting a complete wipe of the hard drive and refresh of the system to factory specs. This may seem extreme, but after recently doing this for my own laptop after 3 years of use, I was impressed with how snappy things perked up.

The question then becomes for my dad to review his system and then catalog what applications he really needs and uses on the desktop. I suggested for him to review the programs that are installed and listed in the Add/Remove programs. The next step is to review what programs are listed in the Start > Programs menu.

After making a list of the applications he uses and needs to have reinstalled, he needs to find all the program installation discs for those applications. This is a helpful task to undergo whether or not you’re preparing for disaster or a scheduled recovery and reboot.

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Preparing for Disaster or Recovery