SIW,very nice program.

[Anthony A]

I sure many of you have probably heard of System Information For Windows (SIW). Maybe you haven't? Any ways I have downloaded this thing and it is very cool. Any thing you could possibly want to know about your computer is on this thing. There is literally hundreds of things it monitors and lists for you. Want to know the temp your processor is running at? It will tell you. Forgot some pass words in Firefox or IE? It will show you them. Do you know the specs of all the hardware on your machine? Do you even know all the hardware you have? This will tell you. I have been looking through all the things it lists (has to be thousands of things) for the last few hours! Still have much more to see. All this in a free program that is about 1.3 MB and No install required. Put the exe in a folder and done. Just run it. Can run it from a USB stick on any computer and get all the info you can possibly handle from that system is seconds.

 

This program is listed on all the major sites and gets great reviews. I have yet to see a negative thing. This is the link to the home page for it. http://www.gtopala.com/

 

Here is some links to reviews:

http://www.snapfiles.com/opinions/SIW/SIW.html

 

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/SIW/1097934999/1

 

 

 

Here is a link to a screen shot tour of the UI

http://lifehacker.com/software/information...-siw-236760.php

[AnGrA]

I scanned it with virus total and Sunbelt says that there is a suspicious file on it so I think that I will give it a miss. Although it could be a false positive

[Anthony A]

I scanned it with virus total and Sunbelt says that there is a suspicious file on it so I think that I will give it a miss. Although it could be a false positive

 

Read the FAQ from the home page link. The guy talks about that. There are few anti virus programs that do that for this program. It has something to do with the programs ability to read your pass words and things like that. It's on two of my machines and none of the 8 malware programs I have detect anything suspicious. I did a Google search on SIW and not one complaint about it. It's listed on several of those top free ware lists like this one http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,124883-p...re/article.html

 

and this one http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

 

I don't blame you for being cautious but the program is clean.

[AnGrA]

Yeah i see your point as some AV are not that keen on programs that monitor or keep records of passwords and that is why i said that it may have been i false positive. I was in no way saying that it was a virus infected program i was merely pointing it out. I am just sometime over cautious and since you have told me that it is fine Anthony A then i hope that every one will ignore my previous post and enjoy the program.

[DennisD]

I sure many of you have probably heard of System Information For Windows (SIW). Maybe you haven't? Any ways I have downloaded this thing and it is very cool.

Anthony, I`m impressed. I have never seen so much info on my pc.

 

Spookily enough, my son left a 512mb flash drive with me about a week ago. He stuck it in his pc and it strangely changed from 512mb to 1.5mb. No idea why. Formatted, no difference.

 

The point I`m coming to, eventually, is that this little application has downloaded and fitted, just, onto this flash drive, and runs from there.

 

Very useful. Thanks for the link.

[Anthony A]

Anthony, I`m impressed. I have never seen so much info on my pc.

 

Spookily enough, my son left a 512mb flash drive with me about a week ago. He stuck it in his pc and it strangely changed from 512mb to 1.5mb. No idea why. Formatted, no difference.

 

The point I`m coming to, eventually, is that this little application has downloaded and fitted, just, onto this flash drive, and runs from there.

 

Very useful. Thanks for the link.

 

Yeah there is a lot of info to look at with this program. I have been going over every little thing and it's taking hours. I am picky though and am trying to find out what half of it means. It's scary how it shows all the pass words and secret stuff. Look under the "software" section and go to the last item in the tree. It's called secrets and it shows all the password and secrets. Probably why it's called secrets Even showed my key I use for my wireless router. I wonder if it shows this info if you put the app on a USB drive and use it on somebody else's system? I know it will run and show most every thing from the USB but I wonder about the pass words and other private info? It sure shows it on the system it's down loaded to though.

[DennisD]

I wonder if it shows this info if you put the app on a USB drive and use it on somebody else's system? I know it will run and show most every thing from the USB but I wonder about the pass words and other private info? It sure shows it on the system it's down loaded to though.

Ive just stuck my flash drive back in, and it showed everything.

 

My email addresses, passwords, absolutely everything.

[login123]

CA antivirus didn't get a hit, nor pest patrol, nor Avast. I think you are right, false positive. Wow, that app is so fast it's scary.

[fireryone]

Use RockXP to see some passwords, Windows Key & Office Keys.

RockXP (ver4) allows you to retrieve your XP product key that you used when you installed Windows XP, as well as keys for other Microsoft products. This can come very handy if you need to reinstall but have misplaced or lost the CD cover with the serial sticker. In addition, the program also lets you save the product activation to a file, recover usernames and passwords contained in the Windows Secure Storage, as well as MSN logins, Internet connection parameters and more.

 

The NT Hashes one errored for me with some French "ntdll.dll" error, though the second time I press scan it gives me the hashes but not in plain text.

 

Try out RockXPIII (3)

http://www.helloduck.com/php/article.php3?id_article=870

Rock XP III also recovers RAS passwords

Note: This one (ver III) use to trigger alerts for some AV's.(though NOD32 no longer detects anything, so it must have been a false positive)

 

And RockXP 4

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rockxp.html

[Anthony A]

Use RockXP to see some passwords, Windows Key & Office Keys.

 

 

The NT Hashes one errored for me with some French "ntdll.dll" error, though the second time I press scan it gives me the hashes but not in plain text.

 

Try out RockXPIII (3)

http://www.helloduck.com/php/article.php3?id_article=870

Rock XP III also recovers RAS passwords

Note: This one (ver III) use to trigger alerts for some AV's.(though NOD32 no longer detects anything, so it must have been a false positive)

 

And RockXP 4

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rockxp.html

 

Pass words and product keys are 1of thousands of things SIW shows you.

[Sputnik]

Ray Hinchliffe's System Information Viewer also gives a lot information on your system. Actually I have both SIV and SIW on my computer.

[login123]

Thanks, Sputnik. I went and got it.

[Woody]

when I click on Secrets nothing at all shows up. I obviously don't have any.

[JDPower]

when I click on Secrets nothing at all shows up. I obviously don't have any.

Same here, was quite disappointed

[DennisD]

when I click on Secrets nothing at all shows up.

If it did, it wouldn`t be a secret anymore.