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Designit7
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 Third party Windows utilities
System utilities, Windows XP, Windows XP administration
how do you find third party windows utilities that can be used for gathering hardware information about a computer???

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I am a master web student and I am taking Intro to LINUX...can you help???



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ASKED: January 24, 2011  8:04 PM
UPDATED: January 24, 2011  11:29 PM
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For Windows machines I would use WMI
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agreed. WMI reporting should give you all the information you need. There are some good and free packages out there, such as lansweeper and spiceworks. Also, take a look at SYDI Sydi will retrieve both hardware and software information for you.

Spadasoe
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Yes, most Windows monitoring applications use WMI to gather information from the monitored machines, for example: Spiceworks.

carlosdl
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All of the above are great directions on monitoring Windows -with- Windows.

Looking into your Linux side, I point you to dmidecode.

It is usefull to query all about hardware from Linux.
To get an idea, please read this article.

saturno
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