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Using RegDevelop to Create your own Hardware and System Information Program

Gathering of computer hardware and system information about the central processing unit (CPU), Memory Card (RAM), BIOS, motherboard, and other hardware peripherals are usually needed in many cases for hardware verification, driver installation and driver update. Here’s a guide to create your own program using Regdevelop. All you need are commands use to get the hardware information. How-to-do Open the program and drag the button control and start configuring the settings. Sample Settings ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caption CPU Current Voltage and Caption StartProcess cmd /k wmic cpu get caption,currentvoltage ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caption System Information Tool StartProcess msinfo32 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Caption Current Clock Speed StartProcess wmic cpu get CurrentClockSpeed,Ma...

How to get the Current CPU Clock Speed, Computer Service Tag Number, Bios Name and Version using WMI

Computer stickers holds your computer service tag number or serial number information and if the technical support person needs to get the number as soon as possible. How will you solve the problem using only the command prompt? Got an overheating problem and you need to check the current clock speed of your computer? Here’s a quick tip for windows built-in utility using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) called wmic. Open the command prompt (Start Search –> cmd) and type the following command for BIOS Name, Service Tag Number and Version wmic bios get name,serialnumber,version Computer System Product information Name, Identifying Number and UUID wmic csproduct get name,identifyingnumber,uuid CPU Name, Current Clock Speed and Maximum Clock Speed wmic cpu get name,CurrentClockSpeed,MaxClockSpeed You can monitor the changes in ...

Using Subst command to create virtual drives

Subst is being use to associate or substitutes folders as virtual drives. The command lets you access data easily and By functionality, its almost the same as creating folders to computer window . Lets try using the command by creating drive S: using the folder c:\files. type “cmd” at Start search, and follow the command below s: – virtual drive letter files – folder that you want to associate (c:\files) Afterwards, you’ll see the virtual drive instantly. Anyway, the problem with the command, when the computer restarts, all created virtual drives will be deleted automatically. So, Let’s solve and try loading the commands before logging into windows. Open your Notepad and write the command subst s: c:\myfiles\videos subst x: c:\backup Use File > Save As and go to the following folder location C:\Users\ [username] \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ Startup Make sure that you Click ALL Files (*.*) and write the ...

How to Remove items at most recently used lists for Run Window

If your computer are shared by your family, privacy sometimes are very important - editing history list from your run window is a very cool topic. Here’s how… Open your registry editor, press Win + R and type “regedit” and go to the folder below HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU Look for the item that you want to remove from the list and delete Most of the data in the registry are now secured for the newer version of windows, so, editing and adding data are safe as long as any changes came from the source you trust. Thanks for reading the article!