User Guide

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Discover Pro lets you view information about your hardware and software.
Each ta b in the Discover Pro w in dow covers a s pecific as pect of your PC,
ranging from a general overview of your system configuration through
software to benchmar k an d diagnostic tests. You can click the A dvanced
button at an y time to obtain a far more detailed analysis of the current tab’s
topic.
• System tab–shows information about the most critical hardware
components of your system, including your CPU, RAM, video, hard
drives, BIOS ROM and PCI Bus.
• Memory tab–gives you information on W indow’s usage of your PC’s
memory, via easy-to-understand charts and tables.
• Software tab–provides you with information about the software you are
currently running, and the software components of Windows, such as the
numbers of virtual machines, threads, tasks, virtual device drivers and
modules.
• Drives tab–gives you a complete summary of any drive ins talled on your
system and of all the directories,folders and files on that drive. You can
immediately see the total size of eachdrive, the amount of free space,
fragmentation levels a nd the size of your drive’s free slack.
• I/O Devices tab–shows info rm ation on the s e condary a nd optiona l
hardware d evices installed on your PC, such as sound devices, serial and
parallel ports, printers (including fax/modems) and network data
including ne tw ork type, driver, s p ecification, version a nd user name.
• Benchmarks tab–an easy-to-usemethodto benchmarkthe performanceof
your CPU and c om p a re it to average benc hmarks for thr e e o ther
“commonly configured” PCs.
• Diagnostics tab–a diagnostics center that lets you run diagnostic tests on
variousa spects of yourPC,inc luding serial, para lle l, hard drive, RAM and
DMA tests.
Working with advanced information
You can view detailed information about any of the tabs in the Discover Pro
window.
To wor kwithadva nc edinformation:
1. Click a tab to bring it to the front.
2. Click the Advanced button.