
Right-click on it and select run as administrator if you want to use it with elevated rights.Ī pop-up window opens when you click on the details button towards the right of each item that's listed. Or you can do what I did, paste the above command in Notepad and save it as a.

But Basic Hardware Inventory was still reporting the scores as zero. I followed this up by entering "Get-CimInstance Win32_WinSat" in a Powershell window, and it showed the scores correctly. I tried running an elevated command prompt window and used "winsat formal" to rerun the WEI test. During my tests, the scores were displayed as 0. It lists the hard drives installed on the computer with their model number, storage capacity and interface type.īasic Hardware Inventory shows a score for some components, this is based on the result of Windows Experience Index. Total physical memory (RAM) along with the number of banks and modules. Basic mode displays the model number, frequency (speed in MHz), socket type of the CPU. There are 2 inventory (view) modes in the program: Basic and Full. This is important, I'll explain about it later in the article.

It also warns you that you're using the 32-bit MSHTA version, and points you how to run the 64-bit executable. You may choose not to, but it may not be able to read some information unless you run it with administrator rights. A pop-up window asks you if you want to run the program with elevated privileges.
