Very often there is the need to find complete information on the detailed configuration of a computer, both in the case in which a PC has just been purchased, and when it is necessary to send this information to solve operating problems. A Hardware report can be useful for:
- identify the physical components inside the computer such as CPU, memory, motherboard etc;
- understand if there is a conflict between different pieces inside the computer.
- support computer repair.
The collection of this information can certainly be done manually but it would be really a long and tedious task to write a report with all these technical data.
Precisely for this reason there are several useful programs to automatically create a detailed report on all the hardware and software components of a computer.
On another page of this blog are some of the best software of this type that check the information of each part of the computer (such as the cpu, the ram, the video card and so on) recognizing the brand, the model and features.
Another very useful free application allows instead to obtain a detailed report on these technical data, both hardware and software, with a sheet to be saved on the PC, to be sent by mail or to be printed .
LookInMyPC can be freely downloaded and installed without problems and without worrying about unwanted or dangerous products.
Once installed, a screen appears with many checkboxes describing the themes to be included or not in the final report.
You can simply select or deselect these check boxes to add or remove sections of the relationship that will be generated.
Among them are information: on the antivirus, information on the battery of the laptop, on the hard disk, on the mouse, the running processes, the browser settings, the registered users, the bios, the firewall, the modem, the network card, the printer and much more.
LookInMyPC not only collects information regarding the connected hardware, but also provides details on the programs installed and started on the PC .
LookInMyPC is therefore an excellent free tool to create detailed reports to be sent on support forums, to be sent to expert friends who can then analyze the status of the system and offer help in case things are not going well.
Unfortunately, the report is only available in HTML format, so if necessary, convert this html sheet into a text file or a pdf.
The report is however well organized and easy to read with many detailed statistics for each of the categories.
On the report there is also a "What's This" button> explanations to help even the less experienced to understand what your computer is made of.
The report can also be sent by email from the program itself with the "Generate Report and Email" option
Unfortunately there is no portable version and to make Lookinmypc work it must be installed on all the computers whose technical report you want to generate.
For those who are not satisfied with this tool (which has not been updated for some time), a detailed report on the PC hardware can be generated with other more modern programs such as HWinfo32, the most famous and best program of this kind.
