System Information (Windows)

{{Short description|Windows built-in system profiler}}

{{Infobox software

| name = System Information

| screenshot = System Information screenshot.png

| screenshot_size = 300px

| caption = System Information on Windows 11

| developer = Microsoft

| operating system = Microsoft Windows

| genre = System profiler

| website = https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/300887/description-of-microsoft-system-information-msinfo32-tool

}}

System Information (msinfo32.exe) is a system profiler included with Microsoft Windows that displays diagnostic and troubleshooting information related to the operating system, hardware and software.{{cite book|first=Roger A. |last=Grimes|title=Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows|url=https://archive.org/details/maliciousmobilec00grim|url-access=registration |date=14 August 2001|publisher=O'Reilly Media|isbn=978-1-4919-9470-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/maliciousmobilec00grim/page/210 210]}}{{cite book|author=Microsoft Official Academic Course|title=70-687 Configuring Windows 8.1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VeTHAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA514|date=14 July 2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-88275-7|pages=514–}} It has been bundled with Windows since Windows NT 4.0.

It compiles technical information on the overall system, hardware resources (including memory, I/O, etc.), physical hardware components (CD-ROM, sound, network, etc.), and the Windows environment as well (drivers, environment variables, services, etc.). It can export this information in the plain text format or in files with a .nfo extension, which can be used to diagnose problems. In addition, System Information can be used to gather technical information on a remote computer on the same network.