Home : Tutorials : Windows XP : Save systeminfo.exe results to a text file.

There is some important information about you system you could save in case of trouble and learn a bit at the same time.

Systeminfo.exe show what kind of processor you have, how much RAM, any extra PCI cards installed in your system.   Basically info you might be interested in but info that could be invaluable to someone working on the system after it crashes.

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Left-click on Start --> Run.

Type cmd in the Run box.

At the command prompt type cd my documents

If you aren't brought into the My Documents directory then note what the path is before the command prompt in the cmd window.  (c:\Documents and Settings\username\...)

Type systeminfo > sysinfo.txt

This command will run systeminfo.exe and create a new file called sysinfo.txt with the results of running systeminfo.exe.

Type exit.

Double-click on My Documents.

Double click on sysinfo.txt to open it in your default text editor  (ie. notepad.exe).

Print sysinfo.txt and file it away with your computer purchase information.  It better to be safe than sorry.

OR

If you right-click on a file with a .txt extension you will haved thr option to Print.

Left-click on Print.

Note:

Alot of DOS-style commands have simple plain text output.  Specifying > after a command like that will send the results to a text file named whatever you specify after the >.  To make things easy you could always run systeminfo > c:\sysinfo.txt and then you only have to find sysinfo.txt under My Computer --> (C:).