One surefire way to impress your geek friends and neighbors is by rattling off the specs of your PC like you're reading the menu at McDonalds. Don't know your specs? No problem. Download Belarc Advisor and you'll find out everything you ever wanted to know about the innards of your PC and more.

Install and run Belarc Advisor and you'll see a personalized webpage with all your specs. This tool doesn't automatically send your system information to Belarc, but if you're still worried about privacy read this.

What Belarc will tell you

Belarc inventories the following:

• Serial number
• Motherboard's make and model
• BIOS information
• Bus clock
• OS
• Processor
• Drives
• Controllers
• Buses
• System model
• Memory modules
• Display
• Devices
• Installed software.

If you're anything like me, it will surprise you how many random programs lurk inside your box. Click on the asterisk and Belarc tells you exactly where each piece of software lives.

Belarc Advisor is a small download (559KB), and it's free for individual use.

System Requirements

• PC only
• IE 3, Netscape 3, or later versions
• If you use IE 6 or 5.5 SP2, you need to download this .reg file after you install Advisor.

Download Belarc Advisor

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