The System Information tool is a utility used by Windows systems to collect and display system configuration information, diagnose computer problems, or access other system tools. Its powerful information collection function allows you to understand the current hardware and software running status of the system, possible problems, and then directly call other system tools to solve the problem, you can also use it to protect system files from infringement and so on. In short, learning and being good at using it will give you an idea of the current state of the system.
open "System Information" tool
click on the "Start /All Programs /Accessories /System Tools /System Information" option to open "System Information" panel. Or click the "Start /Run" option, enter "Msinfo32.exe" in the "Run" dialog box, click "OK", you can directly open the "System Information" panel.
view hardware resource consumption
when you add new hardware, new hardware if occupied by the original equipment IRQ interrupts, DMA channels, I /O address and other hardware resources, in the old and new hardware A resource conflict has occurred between the two, which will result in one or more hardware devices not working properly or the system being unstable. For example, after adding new hardware, there is a frequent crash, no sound or mouse, keyboard can not be used. So how do you know which hardware resources are being used? Click on the "Hardware Resources" option in the "System Information" panel to view "Conflict/Share", "DMA", "Force Hardware", "I/O", "IRQ". Current hardware resource usage such as "memory". For example, in the "conflict/share" option, you can see which devices in the system have resource conflicts or share hardware resources (see Figure 1), and click the "IRQ" option to view the occupied hardware resources and used devices. This way, after understanding the hardware resource usage, you can replace an unused resource in the Device Manager with the device in question.
easily view detailed equipment information
view detailed information about the device in the "Device Manager" in the need to constantly click on the appropriate button to see the complicated operation, while the "System Tools" panel In the "Components" option, you only need to click on the corresponding device name, and its details will be displayed in text form. For example, clicking the "CD-ROM" option will not only display the drive letter, type, manufacturer, and driver installation directory of the CD-ROM drive. If you put a good quality disc in the CD-ROM drive, you can also check the CD-ROM drive. The "transfer rate" value, if displayed after a long time after clicking "View/Refresh" or displayed as "Loaded Media No", indicates that the optical drive has poor readability or a problem. In the "Problem devices" option, devices that are currently not working or deactivated are displayed, and so on. When
process and start the program at a glance
when in the "Task Manager" and "process" option to see a suspicious program is running, if they can know its origin can be simply judged it Whether it is an illegal program. You can open the "System Information /Software Environment /Running Tasks" option, which will show you which folder all current processes are from, so that you can understand the source of each process. In the "Startup Program" option, you can see which programs are randomly started and their paths. Other software information such as drivers, system services, and installed programs installed on the system can be viewed here. In the "Internet Settings" option and the "Office Application" option you can view information about IE and Office programs.
easily diagnose network problems
when the network connection problems, we want the network diagnosis, then, are generally required to use multiple network commands related to testing, operation trouble is not that, get The information is not comprehensive. Using the "Network Diagnostics" tool of "System Information", you can check whether the running status of the network-related hardware, programs, and services in the current system is normal. Open the "Tools /Network Diagnostics" option, pop up the "Network Diagnostics" window, click the "Set Scan Options" option, select the network test project you want to perform, and then click the "Scan your system" option to start the network diagnostic process. After the scan is completed, the system will give a complete and detailed network diagnosis report (Figure 2), from which we can quickly understand the current system network configuration information, and identify the possible problems.
Protect important system files
The integrity of the system files is very important to the stability of the system, but some installers will replace the system files themselves or even some malicious replacement, which will cause the system to crash or give the system Safety poses a hidden danger. Use the File Signature Verification Utility in System Information to minimize this potential hazard. Open the "Tools /File Signature Verification Utility" option, pop up the "File Signature Verification" dialog box, click the "Start" button (Figure 3), the computer will start scanning the key files in the system for analysis and digital signature, Display those unverified system files, including their directories, modification time, and file types, to help you identify suspicious files. After scanning, the system will automatically report to you as long as the key files with digital signatures are changed.
In the "Tools" menu of "System Information", you can also find "System Restore", "DirectX Diagnostic Tool" and "Dr Watson" three system tools, so that you can call these at any time after you find the problem. Tools to solve the problem.