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He disdained the program that I'd previously used to determine it. One of the replies came from an extremely technology savvy man (one of the moderators in fact). I'd included a screenshot of my own computer's temperature in order to illustrate my point. I found Speccy after posting on a Tech Forum. You stop being so pleasantly surprised after a while. I'll discover things for myself, or follow a word of mouth recommendation, only to learn that it's Piriform once again.
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I don't set out to merely download everything that the company makes. I know it appears that everything that I recommend is from them, but they really do make great software. The program has been developed by Piriform.
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We had spotted the problem immediately and we knew just how to fix it. It was followed by an instant chorus in three voices.
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Half a minute later, she proudly pasted into the text chat her entire software specification. There was a short gasp and the lack of verbal response this time felt more hopeful. I waited for her cringing and apologetic protests to abate, then reminded her that last time something had gone wrong, I'd made her download Speccy. This was a woman who'd previously struggled to find a fuse in a plug, now she was being asked about graphic cards, CPU and the core temperature of her PSU. Once we'd established that she had indeed turned it off and on again, there was a barrage of questions about spec. The geek conversation was already in deep cyberspace, when my friend nervously joined us.
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Completing our trinity was a woman who works on the Apple Mac service desk.
Also in the call with me was a man who'd spent his teenage years building computers, and most of his spare time writing programs to run on them. She eventually surrendered to the inevitable and came into Skype looking for me. Over the next few days, she faced the Blue Screen of Death several times. Not only does that often work, but it would also allow her to say 'yes', when it would be the first question that I'd ask of her. This is the fail-safe ' have you tried turning it off and on again' strategy. She swore at the monitor, waited for it to switch back on and hoped that the problem had gone away. She had responded in precisely the correct way, using the method employed by everyone from nerd geniuses through to utter noobs. It had unfortunately taken part of her essay with it. She had been halfway through her homework, when her computer first crashed. She takes the view that she doesn't have to be personally clued in.
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Though we've seen lots of system information utilities and even find the Windows feature useful, Speccy looks like a keeper.The young woman is a self-confessed computer illiterate. Piriform's freeware has impressed us with its value, and Speccy fits the form. We also like the ability to save and reload system "Snapshots" as XML or text files, or even optional INI files. It accurately displayed sensor data from the CPU and two hard drives, offering reassuring proof that our disks and CPU were all operating well within their rated temperature range the dual-core Pentium 4 in our testbed ran at a frosty 37 degrees C. Our favorite function by far is the temperature display. The Help file links to a product Web page, but it's more than adequate, and Speccy's about as easy to use as any program out there it just shows you what's going on with your PC.
Speccy has few settings beyond language and temperature (Fahrenheit or Celsius). Clicking anything calls up a more detailed view of the component's operating conditions and statistics. The left-hand navigation window lists Summary, which gives a handy system overview, as well as CPU, RAM, and so on. Speccy's sleek dialog, gray tones, and small but crisp and colorful icons give a modern look to the familiar Windows interface. It even displays the temperature of compatible hardware. It shows the brand, model, version, driver, file, location, capacity, operating condition, and other data about your system's CPU, motherboard, RAM, graphics card, disk drives, optical drives, audio, peripherals, network, and operating system. Its mission is to collect and display more-detailed information about your hardware and its performance than is offered by Windows, even the latest versions.
Piriform's Speccy is a nifty little system information utility.