click here I found a program that inventories your computer, it tells you what hardware you have, Operating System, Processor, Drives (Usable Hard Drive Capacity-Hard Drive Free Space), Controllers, Bus Adapters, Buses, System Model, Main Circuit Board, Memory Modules, Display, Multimedia, Communications, Other Devices. It does the same with the Installed Software, versions etc. You download the program and run it on your computer so the information is for your eyes only. Worth looking into....

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

Answers

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

The complete inventory is available to users in Win2000 and supposedly in W-ME Win 2000-----> START---->Administrative Tools----> COMPUTER MANAGEMENT .

This is the management console for power users and Admins that beefs up "system tools". Does the whole thing without allowing outside access. As usual, the most important thing for most users is 'DEFRAG'. CM pulls up your system and software logs for analysis, has the beefed up Device manager to find IRQ conflicts (and any other hardware conflicts), display memory use etc.

If you have to go outside try the C/net http://catchup.cnet.com which will inventory your software than go find which newer versions might be available. Useful for a lot of the utilities or plug ins which you keep forgetting to update.

Clean up the reg with Regcleaner ( http://www.jv16.org/ )

or:

Ezcleaner
Or to find "unneccessary" files, dead shortcuts on the start menu, and clean up the reg with

http://www.saunalahti.fi/tonihele/ecleane.htm

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001

Another tool available on trial basis is System Mechanic but you can accumulate the same tools for nada. Strangely, most of these things have different Reg. tools because they almost always will find something beyond the freebie Microsoft gives away (RegClean). Then add in ADAWARE 4.55 which will pick up a lot of SPYWARE and delete it upon approval. It roots out stuff that is relaying your web travels (and who knows what else) back to mission control..

http://www.lavasoft.com .

Another useful tool blocks Double Click from see you 0CLICK :

http://www.privsoft.com

For the really paranoid, www.zeroknowledge.com download: FREEDOM 2.0XX which requires some thinking about which parameters to set up. EASIER TO USE : ZONE ALARM 2.44 FROM WWW.ZONELABS.COM FREE TO SINGLE USERS.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2001