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• HiBit System Information — Meet your computer

  Posted on July 31, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.31 • 2023-07-31

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  A modern Windows PC has hundreds of hardware components and even more software programs to control it all. You don’t need to use a screwdriver to find out what you have.

  HiBit System Information is a free and portable utility that gives you everything you ever wanted to know about your computer in a neat, easy-to-navigate, tabbed interface. Because it’s portable, you can put it on a flash drive and go around snooping in everyone’s computers. With permission, of course.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.31.0, 2023-07-31).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Freeware Spotlight Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Newsletters, system information, Windows

• Following a trail of utilities

  Posted on November 8, 2020 at 21:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  SHORTS

  By TB Capen

  It’s always a bit surprising how researching one topic can lead you to others.

  In this case, it started with an AskWoody Lounge post about the classic FTP app FileZilla.

  A forum member was concerned that the FileZilla download files reportedly contain malware. That’s unlikely, but a free version of the app currently does include “sponsoring” software

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.44.0 (2020-11-09).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, FTP, system information, Virus scanners

• Spotting fakery in system specs

  Posted on August 26, 2019 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  We all assume that Windows’ built-in System Information and Device specifications applets are reporting a PC’s true specs.

  And under normal circumstances they do; but, surprisingly, simple hacks can make those tools display totally bogus information.

  Plus: What you should know about safely repurposing a former boot drive in a new machine.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.30.0 (2019-08-26).

  LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Fake specs, Recycling hard drives, system information