Advanced Administrative Tools
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 1.7Mb
Shareware $49.95
AATools is a multithreaded network diagnostic tool. Its purpose is to accumulate data pertaining to network status and availability, using all of the latest development tools in network research. It is a 11-in-1 utility, including TCP/UDP Security Port Scanner, Proxy Analyzer, Trace Route, Email Verifier, Links Analyzer, Whois, Network Monitor, Process Monitor, System Info, Resource Viewer, Registry Cleaner.

Advanced PCI Info
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/Me  Download  Homepage   Rating: 5/5 - 290Kb
Freeware
This utility shows PCI/AGP devices list. You can get the detailed information on each of them with identification and all device capabilities.

AIDA
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 968Kb
Freeware
AIDA is a sysinfo/systest/benchmark tool, designed to be run in DOS mode. It can reliably identify almost all hardware & software components, and gives you pretty much information about the computer. Unfortunately, it has rather uncomfortable interface.

AIDA32 Enterprise Edition
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 5/5 - 2.9Mb
Freeware
AIDA32 is a sysinfo/benchmark tool. It can reliably identify almost all hardware & software components, and gives you pretty much information about the computer. It can be considered as one of the best programs in its class! Highly recommended!

AltiPCI
OS: WinNT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 139K
Freeware
AltiPCI displays detailed PCI statistics of all devices in a Windows NT/2000/XP Pro X86 based system. A few features include GUI hex dump for each device, standard vendor, device, & class descriptions, multi-function device breakdown, general class descriptions for prototyping, easy device autoscroll buttons, subvendor & subsystem information and buttons to generate and save detailed reports of local PCI 2.3 devices.

Analyzer XP
OS: WinXP   Download Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 469Kb
Shareware
Analyzer XP gives you information about your system working under Windows XP. Particularly, it show information about the operating system, CPU, BIOS, video subsystem, including monitor, multimedia devices, RAM, disk drives, I/O devices, and more. At the moment, the program has only Russian interface.

ASTRA
OS: DOS, Win95/98  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 380Kb
Shareware $15
This is a very nice russian sysinfo program (with english interface), that gives you comprehensive information about your computer (including monitor!).

Belarc Advisor
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 600Kb
Freeware
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Bench 1.8
OS: DOS       Download  Rating: 4/5 - 24K
Very good program! BENCH is an efficient benchmark for PC's motherboards, processors, graphics adapters, hard drives and CD-ROM drives! It's main advantage is it's size!

BenchMarX
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 600Kb
Freeware
BenchMarX gives pretty comprehensive system information and allows to benchmark some components (such as CPU, video (OpenGL), memory, hard drives) and compare the results with other systems.

Bonzai System View
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 2.4Mb
Freeware
Bonzai System View gives you detailed information about your computer - the drives, display, memory, CPU and more. With its attractive and easy to use interface, you can quickly find detailed information which could be useful before installing new hardware or calling technical support.

Business Winstone 2002
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP  Homepage    Rating: 5/5
Winstone 2002 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98, Windows 2000 (SP2 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores. You can download version 1.0.1 update executable that will turn an installed 1.0 version of Business Winstone 2002 into the new 1.0.1 version.

CheckIt 5.0
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 3/5 - 6.2Mb
CheckIt is a powerful 32-bit diagnostic utility. It helps you pinpoint problems, test system components, locate system conflicts, ect. Not bad.

CliBench MK III SMP 0.7.15
OS: Win95/98 Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 165Kb
CliBench is a suite of synthetic benchmarks that includes the following benchmarks: Dhrystones, Whetstones, Eight queens problem, Matrix operations, Number Crunching, Floating point, memory throughput, hard disk's throughput and the CPU usage.

CoffeineMark 3.0
OS: Win95/98, Mac OS, Solaris, OS/2 Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 70 Kb
The CaffeineMark is a series of tests that measure the speed of Java programs running in various hardware and software configurations. All the tests can be performed online as well as locally.

Cool Info XP
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 11.8Mb
Shareware $29.95 (30 days evaluation period)
This program shows some system information about drives, files, memory, mobile systems, network, fonts, printers, keyboards, mice, monitors, video adapters, CPU's, and more. Allows for printing or exporting all information to database, text format, XML, etc.

Dacris Benchmarks Lite
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 195Kb - Freeware
With this freeware version of Dacris Benchmarks, you can perform basic tests and view system information on any computer with Windows 95 or better. It is small enough to put on a floppy disk and use to test systems where Dacris Benchmarks .NET may not be useable.

DIAG
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 540Kb
Shareware 10 EURO
DIAG is the diagnostic program, which detects, tests and benchmarks you entire hard- and software. It knows a lot of hardware and can test your motherboard, CPU, videocard, HDD, CD-ROM, etc.

Dr.Hardware 2003
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 2.2M
Shareware $19
One of the most thorough and up-to-date PC analysis programs! It performs the detailed analysis of compatible PCs and their components: Processor, BIOS, Cache, Bus, Fixed Disks, CD ROM, Modem, VGA, AGP test, ect. It also performs benchmarks of CPU, graphics, hard disks, CD ROM, Net, ect. And more!
Download German Version.

Dr.Hardware 8.0
OS: DOS Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 656Kb
Shareware $28
DOS version of Dr.Hardware 2002! Suited for the "naked" computer! Fits on one boot floppy disk. Stays up-to-date due to regular updates! It performs the detailed analysis of compatible PCs and their components: Processor, BIOS, Cache, Bus, Fixed Disks, CD ROM, Modem, VGA, AGP test, ect. It also performs benchmarks of CPU, graphics, hard disks, CD ROM, Net, ect. And more!

FreshDiagnose
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 949Kb
Freeware
Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU, memory, network, hard disk performance, comprehensive system information, including hardware resources and network information, and more.

HARDiNFO 2003
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 8Mb
Shareware $79 (30 days trial)
HARDiNFO 2003 is a System Information, Diagnostic, Benchmark and Computer Management application designed to be used by Small Business to Large Business and Professionals. HARDiNFO 2003 displays the hardware information in well organized categories with high quality graphical representation of each hardware component for fast and easy understanding. HARDiNFO 2003 is the first system information application which supports detection of hardware configuration from an Internet/LAN network computer without having to install it on your entire network. You can download an older version for Win9x here.

Heart Beat
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 375Kb
Shareware $10
Heart Beat is a multi platform system performance test program. It works by timing itself as it performs various pre defined programming functions, such as mathematical operations, variable passing in and out of memory and reading and writing to disc. Results can be saved and Heart Beat can then make graphical comparisons between different result sets.

Hnet Info
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 35Mb
Shareware $69
Hnet Info is a large system product. It is determined for work with Intranet/Internet and for detection hardware components. Hnet Info contains 28 modules. Separate modules are part of unit such as detection and diagnostics hardware, benchmark tests (CPU, HDD, memory, video card, CD-ROM/RW/DVD, OpenGL). Network analysis and full mapping network inclusive of network statistics. FTP client contains large element of files manager. FTP server, chat, sms client and IP telephony can use for intradepartmental Telephony network. Hnet Info also contains Web download, module remote administration PC, e-mail client, encrypting files, backup files directories and registers, and much more!

HWiNFO
OS: WinNT/2000(95/98), DOS   Homepage Rating: 4/5
Download version for DOS (613Kb), Windows (959Kb) Shareware from $20
Hardware Info (HWiNFO™) is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. Althrough HWiNFO32 is developed for Win32 subsystem, it is designed for NT technology, which means it achieves best results while running under Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. However, you can run HWiNFO32 under Microsoft Windows 9X, but some features may not be reported correctly. Accordingly, HWiNFO for DOS must be run under pure DOS.

Inside
OS: Win95/98    Download Rating: 3/5 - 309Kb
This russian program gives you full information about Windows, memory usage, system components, fonts, ect.

Intel Media Benchmarks
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 4/5 - 20Mb
The Intel Media Benchmark measures Video, Image Processing, 3D Graphics, and Audio performance on Windows 95/98 computer systems.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2003
OS: Win98/2k/XP       Homepage    Rating: 5/5
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, multimedia content creation applications on Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher), Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows XP. It uses such applications as: Dreamweaver, Sound Forge, Photoshop, Windows Media Encoder, Adobe Premiere, and so on.

PassMark BurnInTest 3.0
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP    Download     Rating: 4/5 - 661K
This is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability. I like it!

PassMark Performance Test
OS: Win95/98/NT      Download  Rating: 4/5 - 855K
This program measures the performance of CPU, memory, graphics system (2D/3D), hard drives and MMX. The results are presented as easy to read bar charts. You can compare the results with other systems.

PC Information
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 671K
Shareware $25
PC Information enables you to gather information on your computer's hardware and software. You can display information about your computer's ID, processor, memory, CD-ROM, disk drives, video and sound cards, network connection, modem, motherboard, monitor, mouse, printer, IP address, and operating system.

PCMark2002
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP Download  Homepage   Rating: 5/5 - 8.8Mb
Shareware $9.95
PCMark2002 measures generic PC performance in home and office use. The program does not include whole applications for measuring the performance but instead, PCMark measures the computer's performance on a lower level. PCMark2002 tests the following: CPU, the memory subsystem, graphics memory, hard disk drive, new Microsoft Windows XP GUI features, video performance and quality, laptop battery, if PCMark is run on a laptop.

PC Pitstop
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP   Homepage     Rating: 5/5
Freeware
PC Pitstop can help you get your PC in top form -- running fast, stable and secure. PC Pitstop runs diagnostics on your PC to identify things that might help improve performance. The process is fully automated, private and safe. After the diagnostics run, it'll give you tips for improving all kinds of things, comprehensive information about your computer and its performance, security, Internet connection speed, and much more! There's no need to download anything. Results can be e-mailed and/or saved on the server for further reference.

PC Surgeon
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.8Mb
Shareware $20
Gather detailed data on every aspect of your system using this application. It provides all the options and data that Microsoft tools leave out. There is an extensive list of additional system, Windows and software options in addition to system, network and graphics tools. This also provides detailed reports in text format that can be exported to HTML or MS Excel. Plus, you can e-mail or print any topic.

PC Wizard
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.6Mb
Freeware
PC Wizard is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. It is also designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD-ROM, RAM.

PCI
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 138Kb
Freeware
This utility examines your PCI Bus (including devices on the motherboard, AGP port, CardBus ports and within the PCI chipset itself) and reports in detail what it finds. It identifies over 7400 different vendors and devices! The full Turbo Pascal source code is included.

PCI32
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 157Kb
Freeware
PCI32 is a port of the PCI program to "true" win32 - that is, functionality under Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP and so on. It examines your PCI Bus (including devices on the motherboard, AGP port, CardBus ports and within the PCI chipset itself) and reports in detail what it finds. It identifies over 7400 different vendors and devices! The full Turbo Pascal source code is included.

PCIList
OS: Win95/98/NT         Download     Rating: 5/5 - 159K
This utility allows to quickly test the supported and enabled capabilities of AGP cards (side-band addressing,pipeline, 2x/4x transfers, etc.). It also serves as a general-purpose PCI device lister.

Performance Tester 2002
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.9Mb
Shareware $15
This program has been developed for testing the performance of several hardware components in your PC. Performance Tester also includes a CPU- and RAM-Usage Monitor, ability to Export or Import Test-Results. Currently, the program is on the Beta stage, so the list of tests is limited.

QuickBench 8.5
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 190Kb
Freeware
QuickBench allows to quickly benchmark your CPU, RAM, HDD and videocard. The interface is in German.

REporter
OS: Win95/98    Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 198Kb
Freeware
This is a handy system info tool which will report on some of your system's components and write results into the file. It has an attractive design and ability to benchmark your CPU.

Runtime's System Info
OS: Win95/98    Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 937Kb
Runtime's System Info retrieves information about your software, hardware, drives and system configuration. It helps you to keep track of installed components, software and hardware, by generating inventory lists.

ScienceMark
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 263Kb
Freeware
ScienceMark is a benchmark that is based on mathematical and physical formulas, which help you measure the performance of your computer by execution of a few tests, including the simulation of liquid argon, energy calculation of H2O, and the like. The program can be also used as a stability tester.

SiSoft Sandra 2003
OS: Win9x/2k/XP Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 5Mb
Shareware $29 (+ free Standard Version)
SiSoft Sandra (The "System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant") is a Windows 32 information/diagnostic utility. It provides more information (including undocumented) than some commercial diagnostic software, usually included with a tools/utilities package. It is REALLY COOL! Details...

Stability Drone
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP   Download   Rating: 4/5 - 19Kb
Freeware
Stability Drone is a complete core system stability tester and benchmark. It allows to test and benchmark you CPU, Video card and RAM! Note: this is the alpha-version with limited functionality!

Super System Info
OS: Win95/98   Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 326Kb
Super System Info is a program which shows you detailed information about your computer.

Super System Information
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2.5Mb
Freeware
This program will show you a detailed system information. Besides, it is able to automatically or manually free up a set amount of RAM and defragment it. You can also monitor CPU load, and a swap-file, etc. At the moment, Super System Information has only Russian interface.

SynthMark XP
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 8.2Mb
Freeware
SynthMARK is a synthetic benchmarking tool designed to accuratly test the performace your apps recieve from your system. It includes more than 24 tests, including: CPU / Memory Benchmark, FPU / Integer Benchmark, IdleWild Operating System Benchmark, 3D Accellerated Graphics Benchmark (requires DirectX8 or higher). Results can be saved and compared to other systems.

SysInfo v.0.05
OS: Win95/98/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 406Kb
This program shows some information about CPU, Memory, OS, network connections, Windows processes, etc.

System Analyser
OS: Win95/98, DOS Download Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 177Kb
This program gives comprehensive information about your system: Bios, Network, Dos, CPU/FPU, Cache, Memory, Video, AGP, Monitor, Drives, IDE, ATAPI, CD-Rom, DVD, Lpt, Mouse, Keyboard, Modem, Fax, ISDN, Sound, SCSI, DMI, PCI, PCMCIA, Plug and Play, APM, IRQ, DMA, Cmos, Y2K, Windows, ... and lots more!! It also gives benchmarks of the Processor, Memory, Handdisks, CD-Rom and the video adapter.

System Information
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 402Kb
Freeware
System Information is a small utility that provides you with essential information about your computer system and their operating parameters. Shows real-time CPU and RAM usage.

System Speed Test
OS: DOS, Win95/98  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 94Kb
This Russian-made sysinfo program has pretty good english interface, that is rather unusual for such DOS programs. In addition to the full system information, it tests CPU, harddrive, ect. Running under Windows may cause unaccurate test results.

tecChannel Benchmark Suite
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 869Kb
Freeware
tecCHANNEL Benchmark Suite contains three hardware-related test programs. tecBench is the graphical interface integrating the two benchmarks tecHD and tecCD/DVD for evaluating mass storage devices. tecMem, the third program of the trio, is an independent program with its own graphical user interface tailored to its needs. tecMem determines the available bandwidth for data transfers between the CPU and the different levels of the memory hierarchy (caches, main memory).

Test In One Minute
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP   Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 651Kb
Shareware $15.95
Test In One Minute tests overall performance of a computer. It takes only one minute and includes the following tests: integer, float, memory, disk and DirectDraw. You can compare your results with other systems.

TestLAB 2003
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP   Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 5.3Mb
Shareware $39.95
TestLAB provides detailed information about configuration, tests the performances of the PC's components (CPU, memory, HDD, 3D, CD-ROM, Network, etc.), helps the user to develop the configuration in terms of his overall needs, controls the correct operation of the hardware and makes a backup of the system in order to make a quick recovery in the event of a crash, bad manipulation or contamination by a virus. You can download a limited demo version.

TrueBENCH2000
OS: Win95/98    Download  Homepage  Rating: 5/5 - 650Kb
Freeware
This nice little program will give you general information about your system, benchmark processor, memory, video and HDD. Then you can compare your results with other systems and save them to a file.

ToolStar*Windows
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.3Mb
This program is about inventorying, configuring and especially information. ToolStar offers a multitude of information pages in an appealing presentation offers some Windows configuration changes, and can be automized (with a batch mode).

TuffTEST Lite
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 310Kb
Freeware
TuffTEST-Lite is a PC diagnostic software product that can automatically test the major hardware components of any Intel-based, or compatible, desktop PC. It is a "Stand-Alone" diagnostic program that has its own proprietary self-booting operating system. Simply turn the target PC off, insert the TuffTEST-Lite Program Diskette into Drive A, turn the target PC on, and TuffTEST-Lite will boot and take complete control of the target PC.

XL-R8R
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 15Mb
XL-R8R brings you the first intelligent PC hardware upgrade recommendation service. In addition to the spectacular sound and light show that you are treated to while running this software, using XL-R8R makes it possible for you to get personalized recommendations regarding how to improve your PC's performance. XL-R8R has a built-in computer system profiler, which inspects your PC's hardware configuration and connects you to its database for detailed performance analysis and upgrade recommendations. The recommendations that you are provided with are specific to your system and your requirements.

Windows PC Benchmarker
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 333Kb
Shareware $5
Windows PC Benchmarker enables you to benchmark and evaluate the performance of various selected aspects of your computer; view the results of this benchmarking in a graph; save the results and compare them against other selected benchmark results.

WinTune 98
OS: Win95/98/NT      Download  Rating: 4/5 - 1.7Mb
WinTune 98 is a low-level benchmark test suite that tests the performance of the major systems (CPU, memory, graphics, including D3D and OpenGL, ect.) of a PC running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT. Supports MMX, 3Dnow!, SSE.

Dacris XMark 7
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 4.2Mb - Shareware $29
Formerly known as Dacris Benchmarks .NET, XMark.NET is a new all-in-one system diagnosis utility allowing the user to quickly evaluate their personal computer using a series of tests as well as system information. Using an online result database, users will be able to compare their computers to the computers of others. Dacris PC Advisor, an integrated web service, will use the online database to give users advice on a new computer, as well as evaluate their own computer to find out if it requires an upgrade.

Winbench 99
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP    Homepage     Rating: 5/5
Download Winbench 99 2.0 without the test files for the Graphics WinMark or video tests - 9.5 Mb
Download Winbench 99 2.0 without the test files for the video tests - 121 Mb
Shareware
WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC’s graphics, disk, processor, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. Winbench 99 1.0 included CPUMark 99, which now can be downloaded separately!

ZD SpeedRate
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 2.9 Mb
SpeedRate is a benchmark program that allows you to see how your processor and hard-drive perform compared to the average "baseline" machine. When you're done, you can take a look at the other ZD SpeedRate scores from typical machines to see how your computer stacks up.

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