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Detect your laptop hardware

post #1 of 8
10/7/10 at 1:42am
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Hi,

Is there a utility that will tell you what hardware your machine has installed? I’ve tried ‘driver detective’ it’s OK but, you need to have .net set up. This is time consuming if you’re setting up a number of different laptops

What I’m after is a utility that tells you what type network card you have, the manufacturer, so then you can surf up the manufacturer and get the drivers…

Thanks in advance
Nick
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post #2 of 8
10/7/10 at 8:48am
I use Piriform's Speccy. It's free, quick to install and run, and will give you the kind of information you're looking for. For more in-depth hardware information, you can use Everest or Sandra, but those programs are not free.
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post #3 of 8
10/7/10 at 12:40pm
2nd for Speccy (small footprint, no resource hog)

cheers ...
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post #4 of 8
10/7/10 at 7:37pm
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This is OK, but it doesn't tell you about obsure hardware that ends up as 'Unknown device' on Device Manager and it takes dozens of downloads to resolve.

Everest seems to gove more info on those annoying and useless pieces of hardware

Cheers
Nick
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post #5 of 8
10/7/10 at 10:42pm
True. As I said earlier, Everest is more in-depth and comprehensive. You just have to pay for it if you use it beyond the trial period.
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post #6 of 8
10/8/10 at 4:32am
If you go to Control Panel, click Performance Information, click Advanced Tools, then click View advanced System Information. Seems to give a lot of info there....
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post #7 of 8
10/10/10 at 10:53pm
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OK Guys,

what about this http://www.halfdone.org/ukd/ = Uknown Device, goes and tries to find the appropriate driver on the net

Nick
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post #8 of 8
10/11/10 at 2:12am
Sounds like it's worth a shot.
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