PsInfo

Introduction

PsInfo is a command-line tool that gathers key information about the local or remote Windows NT/2000 system, including the type of installation, kernel build, registered organization and owner, number of processors and their type, amount of physical memory, the install date of the system, and if its a trial version, the expiration date.

Installation

Just copy PsInfo onto your executable path, and type "psinfo".

PsInfo works on NT 4.0 and higher.

Usage

By default PsInfo shows information for the local system. Specify a remote computer name to obtain information from the remote system. Since PsInfo relies on remote Registry access to obtain its data, the remote system must be running the Remote Registry service and the account from which you run PsInfo must have access to the HKLM\System portion of the remote Registry.

In order to aid in automated Service Pack updates, PsInfo returns as a value the Service Pack number of system (e.g. 0 for no service pack, 1 for SP 1, etc).

usage: psinfo [[\\computer[,computer[,..] | @file [-u user [-p psswd]]] [-h] [-s] [-d] [-c [-t delimiter]] [filter]

\\computer: Perform the command on the remote computer or computers specified. If you omit the computer name the command runs on the local system, and if you specify a wildcard (\\*), the command runs on all computers in the current domain.
@file: Run the command on each computer listed in the text file specified.
-u: Specifies optional user name for login to remote computer.
-p: Specifies optional password for user name. If you omit this you will be prompted to enter a hidden password.
-h: Show list of installed hotfixes.
-s: Show list of installed applications.
-d: Show disk volume information.
-c: Print in CSV format.
-t: The default delimiter for the -c option is a comma, but can be overriden with the specified character.
filter: Psinfo will only show data for the field matching the filter. e.g. "psinfo service" lists only the service pack field.

Example Output

c:> psinfo \\development -h -d

PsInfo v1.6 - local and remote system information viewer
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

System information for \\DEVELOPMENT:
Uptime:	28 days, 0 hours, 15 minutes, 12 seconds
Kernel version:	Microsoft Windows XP, Multiprocessor Free
Product type	Professional
Product version: 5.1
Service pack: 0
Kernel build number: 2600
Registered organization: Sysinternals
Registered owner: Mark Russinovich
Install date: 1/2/2002, 5:29:21 PM
Activation status: Activated
IE version: 6.0000
System root: C:\WINDOWS
Processors: 2
Processor speed: 1.0 GHz
Processor type: Intel Pentium III
Physical memory: 1024 MB
Volume  Type       Format  Label        Size      Free      Free
    A:  Removable                                              0%
    C:  Fixed      NTFS    WINXP          7.8 GB    1.3 GB    16%
    D:  Fixed      NTFS    DEV           10.7 GB  809.7 MB     7%
    E:  Fixed      NTFS    SRC            4.5 GB    1.8 GB    41%
    F:  Fixed      NTFS    MSDN           2.4 GB  587.5 MB    24%
    G:  Fixed      NTFS    GAMES          8.0 GB    1.0 GB    13%
    H:  CD-ROM     CDFS    JEDIOUTCAST  633.6 MB               0%
    I:  CD-ROM                                                 0%
    Q:  Remote                                                 0%
    T:  Fixed      NTFS    Test         502.0 MB  496.7 MB    99%
OS Hot Fix    Installed
Q147222       1/2/2002
Q309521       1/4/2002
Q311889       1/4/2002
Q313484       1/4/2002
Q314147       3/6/2002
Q314862       3/13/2002
Q315000       1/8/2002
Q315403       3/13/2002
Q317277       3/20/2002

How it Works

PsInfo uses the Remote Registry API to read system information from a system's Registry, and WMI to determine whether Windows XP installations have been activated.

PsTools

PsInfo is part of a growing kit of Sysinternals command-line tools that aid in the adminstration of local and remote Windows NT/2K systems named PsTools.

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