Can you get a hardware list?

[Metspitzer]

Is there a way to copy installed hardware list to a text file?

 

[Paul]

Is there a way to copy installed hardware list to a text file?

The "devcon" program from Microsoft makes nice text files.
Devcon runs from the command prompt, and you can redirect
the output to a text file.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

devcon resources * > output.txt

devcon stack gencdrom

devcon driverfiles *

devcon FindAll =USB

The program has all sorts of options and is fun to play with.

And by adding the "> output.txt" redirection thing, you can
save the output into a file.

Paul

 

[Metspitzer]

The "devcon" program from Microsoft makes nice text files.
Devcon runs from the command prompt, and you can redirect
the output to a text file.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

devcon resources * > output.txt

devcon stack gencdrom

devcon driverfiles *

devcon FindAll =USB

The program has all sorts of options and is fun to play with.

And by adding the "> output.txt" redirection thing, you can
save the output into a file.

Paul

Thanks

 

[Jolly polly]

Thanks

Try SIW http://www.gtopala.com/

 

[G. Morgan]

Try SIW http://www.gtopala.com/

+1

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

+1

+2

 

[G. Morgan]

English is not my native tongue; I'm an American.

Must get complicated when the French kiss comes along.

 

[VanguardLH]

Is there a way to copy installed hardware list to a text file?

You never mentioned if there was a freeware requirment to any
suggestions or if you're willing to buy payware. Some suggestions:

Piriform's Speccy (free and paid versions available)
www.piriform.com
(same author for CCleaner and Recuva)

You can export the list as a .txt or .xml file (which is a text file but
with tags to organize by tree hierarchy). You can even publish your
list to an online site so you can access the data using a URL. Of
course, this means you lose privacy. While you could care less about
exposing what hardware you have (since lots of other users have that
same hardware), it does list processes you are currently running. Since
it is basic HTML code, you could save the web page to a file to send or
store that.

Another suggestion in another subthread is SIW (System Information for
Windows). Only the old version of the Home edition is free. That comes
bundled with OpenCandy (that you have no option during the install to
exclude). See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCandy
http://www.gtopala.com/other/opencandy.php
http://www.opencandy.com/faqs/

Like many freewares, it is adware; however, this one doesn't just
advertise for you to buy their own payware versions but installs
OpenCandy to spew whatever ad content that source wants to deliver on
your host. So the old free Home Edition of SIW isn't just self-sponsor
adware but 3rd-party-sponsored adware. The ads show up supposedly only
during the installation and not later when you run the program, yet I've
seen OpenCandy still deposited on my host after the install (they leave
behind their ad-retrieval client). Apparently you can specify the
command-line switch /NOCANDY not to get the ad during the install. I'd
test inside a virtual machine to make sure nothing of their agent
remained or was found on the host after running the installer that used
OpenCandy. I'm assuming OpenCandy used for their ad-supported freeware
version is not incorporated into the installer for their payware
versions.

Also, you asked for text output to record the hardware list. According
to http://www.gtopala.com/siw-diff.html, there is no plain text output.
There is just the HTML output (which is text with tags). So your "text"
requirement may not be satisfied if you want no HTML code in the output.
That page also lists the restrictions for the freeware version but
whether they apply to your situation only you as yet would know. Not
everything mentioned on their home page (http://www.gtopala.com/) is
available in the freeware version. One of the restrictions is that
licenses are not listed; however, in the payware version, only some
licenses are listed: http://www.gtopala.com/siw-software/licenses.html.
Speccy doesn't list the licenses, either. AIDA32 is an old utility that
became Everest Home when ownership changed and they dropped licenses
from that, too.

There's Everest Home (which came from the old AIDA32 utility). Lavalys
crippled some features in AIDA32 in the Home edition (i.e., you had to
pay to get the remaining features which were all available in the old
AIDA32 program). After awhile Lavalys dumped the Home edition since
they wanted only the payware versions to generate revenue; however, you
can find the old Home edition on download sites, like Softpedia. Later
Lavalys dropped the Everest line to become the AIDA64 line. Go figure.
I never bothered with the Home edition since I already had AIDA32 and
didn't care for the marketing crippling, so I don't know if the old
Everest Home works well on Windows 7.

Been awhile since I used it but remember Belarc Advisor (free) would
list licenses and profile your Windows updates and software. Just be
careful when following their suggestions on how to up your security
rating (as they measure it) since some suggestions can end up disabling
features in Windows that you want to use. Security and ease-of-use are
the antithesis of each other.