How to use MSINFO32 to view System Information

In this article, we shall learn How to use MSINFO32 to view System Information. The process called System Information belongs to Microsoft Windows Operating System. This tool gathers information about your computer and displays a comprehensive view of your hardware, system components, and software environment. You can use to diagnose computer issues. Please see System Information Systeminfo.exe command-line tool switches., and how to “Enable Virtualization in BIOS: Determine if the Intel VT-x or AMD-V Virtualization Technology is enabled in BIOS“.

You may want quickly access to the current system information of your own PC. For example, to get information about the current computer name in the network, the last system start time, information about the virtual memory, or the installed hotfixes.

This is all relatively easy because since Windows XP and also in all subsequent Windows versions such as Windows 7, 8, and Windows 10 there is the often forgotten command “systeminfo”.

Please see How to query a list of installed programs in Windows, how to Various methods to launch the Event Viewer, and How to enable or disable WinRM via the command-line.

View Windows System Information

I will recommend this follow article on “Windows Command Prompt (CMD) capabilities“. Follow the steps below to launch the msinfo32.

From the command prompt and run msinfo32. Or tap on Windows key on your keyboard, and search for Run.

Enter the "msinfo32" and hit the Enter button on your keyboard.

This will display the computer information as shown below.

You can also connect to a remote computer

Enter the name and press ok. More details on parameters that can be used with this utility can be found in these hyperlinks.

Please note that when you run MSINFO32 without Administrator privileges. It may show some drivers as stopped when they are not. This is because the cache for this information requires Administrator privileges to update.  To avoid this issue, make sure to run MSINFO32 with Administrator privileges.

MSINFO32 is not able to provide hardware information when run in Safe Mode.  While Microsoft System Information can be run in Safe Mode, it is limited to displaying information about system components and the software environment.

I hope you found this blog post on how to use MSINFO32 to view System Information helpful. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comment session.