Digging Deep Into Your System Information

How to Digging Deep Into Your System Information

There are four "levels" (that's what I'll call them anyway) of viewing System Information, which is what you want to do. The first way is just a basic view; it will tell you the operating system that you have (in your case, it's Vista), the Service Pack (SP) and a couple of other details.

For a basic system information view, left-click on Start, go to My Computer and right-click on it, and then left-click on Properties.



You will get this:-



There's some other basic information here, as well, but for now we are dealing with the Service Packs.

If you would like just a little more information than just the basic stuff, you're going to do this the same way you did the first time, except this time you are going to left-click onManage instead of Properties.



You will get this:



The third way to gain even more system information is to access the systeminfo.exe tool. All you have to do is left-click on Start, go over to your Run button (if you don't see a Run button, click here to learn how to get it back), and left-click on it, to have your Run box pop up.



Then, in the Run box that has popped up, type in systeminfo.exe. (By the way, the screen shot shows a capital S; you don't have to capitalize it if you don't want to.)



After you click on OK, the black box below will pop up, and give you all kinds of additional system information that you may want to check out (even more than the first two screens). Try and be patient and let it load (mine took a while).



The very last way to get the summary of everything that's going on in your system is to do exactly what you did the last time, except this time type in msinfo32.exe.


This is the kind of system information you will get:


Well, Dolores, you wanted information about your computer and you got it! I think this will keep you going for awhile. I hope it doesn't overwhelm you too much; I just wanted you to have a way to look up any system information that you would like! Keep this article handy and when you need to know something about your computer, you will surely find it here!
Thanks for writing, Dolores!
~ Lori Cline

How To Repair Hard Drive Will Fail.

What you're asking about here, Duane, is called a disc "image" or "mirror". This is used to help you recover your Windows setup and all of your files in the case of catastrophic drive failure.

If you are using Windows XP home edition, you will need to use the backup software that came with your external drive or a program such as Ghost to back up your drive; home edition comes with no backup software.

If you are using XP professional or media center, however, you can access the backup software by clicking Start>All Programs>System Tools.



From there, you will choose the location where you want your backup stored.

In Vista, you access backup by clicking Start>Control Panel>Backup and Restore Center. In Windows 7, it is accessed by clicking Start>Control Panel>System and Maintenance>Backup and Restore. From there they are the same.

Once you open Backup and Restore, you will see the backup screen.



Click on Back up Computer, answer the security warning, and then choose where to backup your information.



Follow the prompts and you're backing up your drive.

Vista also allows you to schedule a recurring backup of your files, although not of your complete hard drive. Windows 7 allows you to schedule any backup. If you have a dedicated drive for your backups, this is probably the best and easiest way to keep your files or drive backed up.

If you have a catastrophic drive failure, once you've reinstalled Windows, you can use the backup and restore center to restore your drive exactly as it was before.

Hope this helps.

~Randal Schaffer

TIP Google Logo Museum.

Have you ever noticed that on holidays and during special events Google puts up a unique logo on their main page? Since 2000, the Google logo has undergone various design changes for Christmas, the Olympics Halloween and more. The only problem is that after the holiday is over, so is the logo.

So, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to take a gander into the archives? Maybe check out some Google logos from years gone by?

Thought so, and thankfully there is!

Browse over to Google.com, and in the Search Box, type “Google Logos” - the first result that pops up should look like this: 



Click on it, and you will be taken to the archives where every logo from 2000 to the present day are there for the viewing! Personally, I love looking at the Halloween ones.



Have fun with this one!

IE9 Near Complete Version And Then Unveiled!!!

Recent news reports. During the Developers Conference PDC 2010 (Professional Developers Conference) is held by Microsoft (Microsoft) has announced the launch of IE9 Platfrom Preview 6 with the information that the RC version IE9 almost complete.

For IE9 Platform Preview 6 will be updated faster performance. As well as add support for HTML5 and CSS3 2D with a platform that came out after IE9 beta is open to download up to 6 weeks, which, Microsoft also revealed that another top downloads IE9 beta surpassed 10 million downloads already smashed Statistical IE beta. all. (Clip below demonstrate IE9 Platform Preview 6 for executing graphics animation compared with HTML5 Canvas with Chrome 7).

"IE9 Platform Preview 6 is the ideal platform for developers, designers and many other partners. Cases will be prepared for their site to welcome IE9 RC "message posted on the blog of Microsoft, however, the company has not revealed the exact date that IE9 complete version will come out. Expected to be a month in March 2011 but may be sooner than expected time.