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How do I check my all laptop's specification

If you are currently looking for articles about how to check the laptop or PC specifications without having to complicated pairs of laptop and computer, then this review may be very helpful to all of you nakmima's blog readers, because in this review I give you some easy steps to check the specifications of a laptop or PC. This kind of trick is very commonly used by computer technicians or for buyers of second laptop, by using this simple trick you can find out the computer or laptop's specifications. We can use this trick on laptops, PCs or notebooks as well as netbooks though, These tips are only used on devices that use Windows Operating System.

This trick is indeed some will take advantage of the default Windows Software and some will use other party software such as CPU-Z or Speecy, because this software is some of the most accurate and fast to use as a tool to check the laptops or computers specifications

For those who just know about laptops and computers may ask what is the laptop or computer specifications, then I will explain that every computer or laptop is sold with the completeness varies depending on the brand and the laptop series, so that buyers can choose the laptop according to their needs. A laptop also has a different price depending on it's specifications, so gaming laptop will be much more expensive than a laptop with standard specifications. Because gaming laptops have a fast processor, RAM and VGA with large memory and large storage capacity as well, So do not be surprised if the price of gaming laptop will be much more expensive with the ordinary laptop

How to Check All Laptop's Specification

For computers or laptops users who want to play game, you must know your laptops specification, because it is very important to adjust the game to be installed with the laptop's ability, so that the installed games can run as desired. When you buy a CD Game for laptop or computer there is usually a system requirement, required by the game related to the hardware and software on the laptop that will be used to install the game

So it would not hurt, if we know the specifications of our own laptop, because one day it will be very useful especially when will install certain software we need such Game software earlier or other software.

Before you check the computer and laptop specifications with these tips, then your computer or laptop must have installed Windows Operating System first and laptop or computer that will be checked must be on and work properly.

While important parameters that we must know on the computer specifications are like the capacity of RAM and VGA, the speed or frequency of work Processor and then the capacity of the hard drive or data storage used laptop. As for the specifications of other laptops is a wide screen can already be viewed with visuals, as well as the completeness of other laptops such as Optical disk drives, as well as ports are also very useful for a laptop and computer. And for the most important specification to be known on a laptop is the four components earlier that consists of RAM, VGA, Processor and Hard Drive

If you want to know how to check laptop or computer specification that you used, then follow some easy tips below

1. How to Check Laptop and computer specifications using System Information

System information or system properties contained in each Windows Operating System is provided for users to view information owned by a computer or laptop. So the windows information system is indeed an application that owned by any computer with windows operating system.

How to check laptop's or computer specification

System properties can be utilized by computer users to check laptop specifications quickly and easily without having to disassemble the laptop first. To access system information, you only need a few easy and quick steps so this tips can be the easiest way to check laptop and computer specifications quickly and safely.

Here are Steps To See Laptop and Computer Specifications With System Properties:

First open windows Explorer on the program menu, or if you want to quickly open it can also by pressing the window flag on the keyboard + E button, then windows Explorer will open immediately.

Next Right click my computer (for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8), and for Windows 8.1, Windows 10 click kana on This PC in Windows Explorer. After that, in the menu that comes out the bottom and select Properties.

After doing the above steps, will soon appear a window that displays "view basic information about your computer" if using windows 10 or windows 8.1 under it there will be sub captions such as windows edition, system, computer name, and windows activation.

Especially for a description of the system under it, there is a description of the processor, RAM and type of operating system used. And on this part of the system is the most important part required by laptop users to check the ability of the processor, and a laptop RAM.

But in this way we can not check the capacity of the laptop hard drive, then how to check the capacity of the laptop hard drive? We need to repeat the above steps by right-clicking on This PC or My Computer then select Manage (windows 7 and later) and select divice manager if using windows XP.

How to check Hard disk Capacity on Laptop or Computer quickly and easily:

  • Right-click My Computer or This PC
  • Select Manage or Device Manager depending on the type of Windows System that installed on your laptop
  • Select or click on Disk Management.
  • With these steps, It will display a description the capacity of existing Hard disk on your laptop along with several other parameters completely.

How to check laptop's or computer specification

But in this way there are disadvantages, where the actual hard disk capacity is sometimes not accurately displayed on the Disk Management System. And generally the capacity listed on disk management is slightly smaller than the original hard drive capacity. For example the actual hard drive is 120 GB but appears on disk management is only about 111 GB. And generally laptop hard drive is made with round capacity like 100 GB, 160 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB up to 1 TB or 1000 GB and so on.

To check the hard disk specifications more accurate, there is one more way that can be used through the system BIOS. In addition, through the BIOS system we can also check the specification of the laptop with more accurate even just for Hardware description only. And for specifications related to software or Operating System can not be seen through BIOS System. And on how to check the laptop specifications of the BIOS system may be discussed in other posts

2. How to Check Laptop and computer specifications using Dxdiag

If the above we can check the hardware and software specifications of a laptop or computer, then in this next discussion we also can still check the specifications of the laptop with other features owned by Windows Operating System is through "DXDIAG"

How to check laptop's or computer specification

Dxdiag feature will we get every installing Windows Operating System, Dxdiag feature is generally not known by computer users who are still unfamiliar. Dxdiag feature found on every Windows Operating System, it is not listed on the menu in windows and can only be accessed by certain ways such as through the RUN menu that can be raised by pressing the "Window + R" on the keyboard laptop or computer

Here are Steps to Checking Laptop and Computer Specifications via Dxdiag

  • Press the Windows + R key on the keyboard
  • Type "Dxdiag" without quotation marks.
  • Then wait until the "Directx Diagnostic Tool" with the X logo on the left side of the window appear.
  • In the Directx Diagnostic Tool Window, there will be information such as System, Display, Sound, and Input. So we can see a Description of the technical specifications of the laptop on the System Tab that informs about the date, operating system to Memory or RAM, Processor and DirectX version itself.

Through Direct X, you can see the VGA capacity that is not included when checking laptop specifications from System Information, through Direct X we will get a description of the VGA specifications on the laptop by clicking on the "Display" tab. However, sometimes the VGA information on the display tab is empty, it is not caused by an error or damaged computer but caused by the VGA Driver not yet installed properly or even not installed at all. So to display the capabilities of VGA on Direct X, then the VGA driver must be installed first.

If you are still not satisfied with the description of laptop and computer specifications obtained from the above, then you also can still check the specifications of laptops and computers by utilizing other software sperti CPU-Z, Speecy or other software.
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