How To check every detail about your hardware and software using Belarc Advisor or Speccy

I use this program quite a lot, just to keep an eye on my overall system - hard and soft.

Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser.

Combine this with ...
Speccy, downloaded from FileHippo...
http://www.filehippo.com/download_speccy

Here it is running on my computer - this is pretty cool.
It gives a breakdown of all the hardware and software on your computer





Cheers.Si.
Checked for links and relevance, April 2014. Still very relevant for Windows XP and Windows 7