System Information (msinfo32.exe) is a

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included with

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that displays diagnostic and troubleshooting information related to the

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, hardware and

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. It has been bundled with Windows since Windows NT 4.0. It compiles technical information on the overall system, hardware resources (including memory, I/O, etc.), physical hardware components (CD-ROM, sound, network, etc.), and the Windows environment as well (drivers, environment variables, services, etc.). It can export this information in the plain text format or in files with a .nfo extension, which can be used to diagnose problems. In addition, System Information can be used to gather technical information on a remote computer on the same network.

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Windows components {{Windows-software-stub

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