Re: [Update] HWiNFO 8.50

"Kerr-Mudd, John" <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:38:25 +0100
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:05:12 +0700
JJ <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:13:30 +0100, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:44:59 -0300
> > Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:46:02 -0500, "Allan Higdon"
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>"HWiNFO is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tool supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards.
> >>>Includes system health monitoring (Thermal, Voltage, Fan, Power), basic benchmarks and multiple report formats (text, CSV, XML, HTML, MHTML)."
> >>>
> >>>https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1715
> >>>
> >>>Home Page
> >>>https://www.hwinfo.com/
> >>>
> >>>Version History
> >>>https://www.hwinfo.com/version-history/
> >>>
> >>>FossHub Review
> >>>https://www.fosshub.com/HWiNFO.html
> >> 
> >> 	I'd forgotten about this program, I used to use it > 20 years
> >> ago to repair OP's computers.
> >> 	Runs on XP (and DOS even) as any utility for examining
> >> computers for hardware/driver problems should.
> > 
> > Requires a 386! that's not very DOS retro!
> 
> AIDA16 is runnable on 80286, minimum. v2.14 is last version.
> 
> https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/system.htm
> 
Thanks. Glad you're still going; not much x86 happening in the asm group
these days.

> Decent/good ones which are runnable on 8086/80186, are not freeware.
> But if you already have MS-DOS 6+, there's Microsoft Diagnostics (MSD).
> Most of the good ones are sharewares.


-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.