peekSYS Screen Layout & Controls
- 'About' button displays information about peekSYS
- 'Quit' button closes peekSYS
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Output window displays system information after a scan; also displays
the 'Help' file and 'About' information after associated button presses
- 'Show more detail' checkbox toggles the amount of information displayed in the output window
- 'Hide section headings' checkbox hides section headings for a more compact report
- 'Green screen mode' checkbox turns the output window black with green text, old school terminal style
Although the entire contents of the output window can be copied to the clipboard or saved as a text file, individual sections or lines can be highlighted and copied with Ctrl-C and pasted with Ctrl-V.
Note:
Toggling 'Show more detail' or 'Hide section headings' triggers a rescan. Any notes added by the user will be lost.
System Scan Information
Scan Date / Time
- Timestamp of scan
System Manufacturer & Model
- Manufacturer and/or model of scanned system (info. from system BIOS via Windows registry)
- System firmware type (UEFI, BIOS, Unknown) (Show more detail)
- Secure boot status (Enabled, Disabled, Not supported) (Show more detail)
Power
- Power source, AC or Battery
Battery
- Battery information, on charge, battery use
System Boot Time (Show more detail)
- Date and time the system started from cold boot
System Uptime (Show more detail)
- Number of days, hours, minutes the system has been running since last cold restart
- OS name and version
- OS edition
- OS architecture
- OS build number (Show more detail)
- System directory path (Show more detail)
Note:
On some systems running Windows 11, the registry may report Windows 10 as the edition. If the OS build number is 22000 or higher, peekSYS corrects this and reports a Windows 11 edition instead.
- Name of computer
- Computer host name (Show more detail)
- Domain or Workgroup name (Show more detail)
- System role (Show more detail)
- Locale (Show more detail)
- Account name of user currently logged in
- Admin status of current user
- User account type (Show more detail)
- Session type (Show more detail)
- List of network adapters, including Ethernet, USB, Wi-Fi, virtual and so on
CPU
- CPU manufacturer and model
- CPU Architecture (x86, x64)
- Number of CPU threads (Show more detail)
Ram & Memory
- Total amount of physical RAM installed
- Free physical RAM available to user
- Total amount of virtual space (Show more detail)
- Free virtual space available to user (Show more detail)
- Total swap space assigned to the system (Show more detail)
- Free swap space currently available (Show more detail)
- Paging file size (usually 4096b or 4Kb) (Show more detail)
Primary Display Adapter
- Graphics display manufacturer and model
Note:
On some systems with multiple graphics processors (for example,
integrated and dedicated GPUs), only the primary display adapter may be
shown; secondary GPUs may not appear, as they are used for offloading
rendering rather than directly driving the display
Screens
- Resolution (width x height) and refresh rate of any detected screens
- System name and colour depth of any screens (Show more detail)
Sound Device
- Primary sound device
Primary Storage
- Total size of primary storage drive
- Free space on primary storage drive
- List of input devices on the system including those connected via USB, Bluetooth, I2C and SPI
- List of printers including default, local & networked
- Port names of listed printers
- Path of user home directory
- Path of user desktop directory
- Path of user downloads directory
- Path of user documents directory
- Path of user temp directory (Show more detail)
- Path of user public directory (Show more detail)
- Path of programs directory (Show more detail)
- Path of user program data directory (Show more detail)
- Path of user picture directory (Show more detail)
- Path of user music directory (Show more detail)
- Path of user video directory (Show more detail)
- Path of all users program data directory (Show more detail)
