There are many individual ways built into WinXP to get this info, but you have to use many different utilities/functions to do this. Even then, some info is well hidden.
A better way is to use a tool/utility to gather, and summarize, all the info for you, then provide a way to save/print that summary.
There are 3 utilities that I have used at home and work:
- Belarc Advisor (free version)
- WinAudit (freeware)
- SIW - System Information for Windows (free version & $techsupport version)
After installation, this utility gathers information including (motherboard, memory, CPU, Product Keys, Updates, etc.) and produces a HTML Audit document. It also runs a Security Benchmark with it's own HTML document.
The Audit HTML will automatically open at the end of a run of Belarc Advisor.
Gathers much the same info as Belarc, but includes the feature to [Save] the info to a PDF file. It is also a very small program that does NOT require install. What you download IS the entire program EXE, just one file that is small enough to fit on a floppy if you wish.
We use this at work to produce a PDF Audit for our records before we ship to a customer, which means we have the hardware & software configuration of the shipped product.
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 (for Computer Software and Hardware Inventory, Asset Inventory Tracking, Audit Software Licenses, Software License Compliance).
Gives much more extensive information than Windows System Information tool or WinAudit and can be run from a USB Flash Drive.
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