WinAudit is easy to use. No special knowledge is required. It is a self-contained single file that needs no installation or configuration. The programm reports on virtually every aspect of computer inventory and configuration. Results are displayed in web-page format, categorized for ease of viewing and text searching. Favorite among techies.

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Desktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the internet. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and control.

StatBar is a system status bar which provides a handy, orderly overview of your system's condition. Available monitors include memory, CPU and disk usages, system uptime, Winamp control, network throughput, Internet time synchronization, and more.

TinyResMeter is a small tool that display usefull realtime system resources informations, but it also give much more details thru context menu when you right-click over displayed fields. Also, build-in function that redirect the original PrintScreen key and make it save screenshots into .BMP files with automatic file renaming.

SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode.

LAN Network Monitor is a free solution for both personal and commercial use, is an advanced network monitor, which allows you to monitor your network in few clicks. Extremely easy to use and very fast in discovering your network's active nodes.

Exhaustive details of system information including CPU, FPU, disk and memory benchmarks, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities. No support for free version anymore.

BGInfo, from Microsoft, automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.

Control your system by starting and stopping services and processes. Configure your startup programs easily.