Find Windows 10 Computer Hardware Specifications

If you need to find a Windows 10 computer's hardware specifications, whether it is for buying a second-hand computer or for any other reason, I'll take you through the steps on how to do this.

First of all, we have system properties. System properties are easy to access and display information on the processor, installed RAM as well as some other useful bits of information. To access system properties click the folder icon on the bottom left corner of your screen or hold the Windows key and the letter E on your keyboard if you do not have the folder icon. Once the folder has launched, find where it says This PC on the left-hand side and right-click it, from the list of options that appear select Properties. The computer's system properties window will appear, here you can find the amount of RAM installed and the processor details.

Next up is MSinfo32, this is known as system information and can be accessed by searching for it. In the start search bar type MSinfo32 or system information and select the option once it appears. After the window opens there will be a pane on the left displaying the contents of the computer, and on the right, there will be a pane displaying detailed information for the content you are currently selected on.

System information displays a lot of information, to gather the specifications for the sound, display, network, and storage devices, follow the steps below:

Sound - Click on components and then the sound device.

Display and Graphics - Click on components and then display.

Network Adapter - Click on components, network, and then adapter.

Storage Drives - Click on components, storage, and then drives or disks.

Moving onto the battery, we can actually check how much capacity the battery has left, and how long the battery will last on a single charge. To get this information, first, search for Command Prompt in the Windows start search bar and open it, this will open a black window with some text in it. After the command prompt window opens, type in Powercfg/Batteryreport, and the system will do its thing, generate a report and provide you with the location of where the file has been exported to. Simply find the file and open it to access the data, it should open up in your internet browser application. If you are unable to find the file, try opening your windows explorer/folder icon, then on the long search bar at the top. type in %userprofile% and hit enter, this will take you to your user root folder, where the battery report should be saved.

Alternative Methods

There are of course alternative methods to find some of the computer hardware details and some might be better than the methods shown above, depending on preference.

Disk Management - To find your storage drive information you could instead search for disk management on the start search bar and select the option Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions. This will immediately open a window displaying the size and partitions of the storage drive within the computer, however, this method can be dangerous for novice users as the entire storage drive data can be deleted from within here very easily. Due to this, I would advise not using this method and sticking to MSinfo32 as it is much safer.

Windows Settings - On a windows 10 machine pressing the Windows key and the letter i will bring up the settings window, from here clicking the system option will display more system options, here scroll down and there will be an option called about, clicking this option will display the processor and RAM information as well.

Command Prompt - Search for Command Prompt on the Windows start bar and select the application when displayed, when the window appears, type in System Info and hit enter, the computer will do its thing for a few seconds and then bring back details on your processor, RAM, network cards as well as the computer model name.

Device Manager - It is also possible to find out your hardware specifications through device manager, to access it just search for it in the Windows start bar and launch it, once open it will display all the available types of devices. To see the actual hardware name click on the small arrow beside the device type.