Create a Report of Installed Hardware and Software with WinAudit
While doing research for a previous article I found a very cool and slick utility called WinAudit. This is a slick and easy to use freeware application that will tell you most everything you want to know about your PC. There is no installation required and you can even run it from a USB flash drive if you are troubleshooting another Windows system.
Using WinAudit
WinAudit is a self contained file under 1MB, just double click WinAudit.exe and you are ready to roll. One cool thing to keep in mind is it will work on Windows 3.1 to Vista and everything in between.
Just click on the Audit button and WinAudit will begin a system scan and allows you to gather the report data in a wide variety of formats.
The amount of information displayed is quite impressive. There is no way to show everything in this post but to put it in simple terms it’s essentially SIW on steroids. From a simple pie graph of programs installed to a detailed look at each one, virtually every hardware and software configuration is inventoried.
The user interface has a simple explorer type navigation for reviewing the different results.
A total system audit took about 1 minute on my system and once you get the results you can instantly save, print, or email to a boss or colleague.
If WinAudit fails or freezes for any reason it gives you its own error message which you can copy or save.
You can select the specific categories for each audit as well by going into the option section.
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Maybe you should say that it is also possible, to use the program via command line options. Did not try it yet, but this will be the only way to use it as an administrator in a network enviroment.
Another issue. the download link dont work without "www" at the beginning -at least on my computer.
I can't acess the pxserver.com website to download Winaudit.
Anyone else in same boat?
Does this program also list all software license keys associated with installed programs? If not, do you know of any application that can do this effectively? I've tried SoftKey which barely scratched the surface of my install base.
@Tom & MikeFaulkner:
I don't have don't problem accessing the link and had a couple of colleagues try it as well.
link worked find for me.
Yes WinAudit gives System info about hardware and software in a descriptive manner ,I found Berlac Adviser and SIW(system information for Windows)portable very useful not only in giving system information but also they display serials of software we installed.
WinAudit is a great software, it doesn't need installation and can report on a network folder, using PCname as the name of the report file. I use it in my network (>150 PC) and I launch it through GPO, so I have update report every day. The only sw that can compete is LanSweeper.
If you have NoScript installed, you must allow pxserver.com access in order to view the site.
i want to done to stay in may place and done in may all client pcs winaudit tool kindly resolve it