System Spec - A Portable Freeware System Information Utility.
System Spec gives you a complete specification and system information of your PC. This includes hardware, software and settings.
What is System Spec ?
System Spec is a freeware system information utility that produces a specification of your system's hardware and software.
With System Spec you can see, save and print a complete spec of your PC. This standalone, system information utility can also perform various windows functions. Additional advanced info includes CPU, drives, applications, display, memory, networking, internet, CD / DVD drives and more.
Running System Spec
Make sure you have Administrator access when running System Spec because many items of system information require local administrator access rights for them to be retrieved. If you are not logged onto to Windows as Administrator or an account with administrator access, you can run as administrator by right clicking on of the SysSpec.exe and selecting the option.
CPU Information
CPU Features
- 3D Now! extensions
- Enhanced 3D Now! extensions
- Enhanced MMX extensions
- SIMD instructions
- FXSAVE/FXRSTOR instruction
- MMX extensions
- Serial number
- 36bit Page Size extension
- Page Attribute Table
- CMOVcc(+FCMOVcc/F(U)COMI(P) opcodes
- Machine Check Architecture
- Page Global Extension
- Memory Type Range Registers
- SYSENTER/SYSEXIT extension
- Processor contains an enable APIC
- CMPXCHG8B instruction
- Machine Check Exception
- Physical Address Extension
- Model Specific Registers
- Time Stamp Counter
- Page Size Extension
- Debugging Extension
- Virtual Mode Extension
- Built-In FPU
- FDIV Bug
The following are given about your CPU.
- CPU Brand
- CPU Chip
- CPU Family
- CPU Model
- CPU Stepping
- Device ID
- Code Name
- Vendor
- Manufacturer
- Serial Number
- Processor ID
- External Clock Speed
- Current Voltage
- Max Clock Speed
- Socket Designation
- Data Width
- Revision
- L2 Cache Size
- L2 Cache Speed
- Status
Below is the recently modified CPU Meters screen.
Drive Information.
SMART information is available on newer hard disks. It provides useful information and status of the hard disk. I think the most useful information it provides is the
hard disk's temperature. The temperature is important because a hard disk can fail or a least become unreliable if it's temperature exceeds a certain value.
Note: SMART information is not currently available on Windows 7.
About System Spec
System Spec is a self contained standalone EXE which can be run without installing. It lists a specification of your Windows PC without listing lots of useless memory address and unnecessary information.
This utility can be used for comparing the specifications of different machines. The spec can be outputted to a text file or printed to a report.
In this new version the spec can be saved to a CSV file so that it can be opened in programs such as Excel.
Export to HTML
As well as export to CSV System Spec can now export the system information displayed on the main system to a HTML file. This HTML file can then be uploaded to your website to show off your PC's Spec. To export to HTML go to File - Export to HTML. The HTML output looks like the main screen and report. Click here to see an example of the HTML output.
Windows function such as shutting down and run can be performed from the System menu. The Control Panel menu allows you to quickly open items from the Control Panel.
Run in Silent Mode
Silent mode allows it to be called from a batch file or login script to produce a spec to a text file without having to use the user interface.
Command line:-
SysSpec.exe /auto c:\details.txt
Note: Only the information from the main page is saved.
The specification can be printed as a report, copied to the clipboard and save to a text file or CSV file.
Windows Compatibility
This software has been tested and is fully functional on Windows 2000 and XP. It will also run on Windows 98/ME but some information may not be displayed. It's is recommended that you install WMICore on Windows 98/NT4 machines. System Spec will not run on Windows 95. System Spec will run on Windows 7 32 & 64 bit versions.
Windows 8 Compatibility.
System Spec is still work in progress of Windows 8.
Note to antivirus scanner users
McAfee virus scanner may report System Spec as a backdoor Trojan. Please ignore this warning as it is incorrect. A DAT file to suppress the heuristic detection, which will be included in a future DAT set, can be downloaded from their updates pages. F-Secure also unnecessarily blocks the EXE file from being downloaded from here but the ZIP file seems OK.