Free inventory computers software for windows

Steel Inventory is a program written and used by the people who are in the mainstream network and system administration field. The program has been written based on the ideas and neccessities faced by every network/system administrator.
As a key feature Steel Inventory provides the administrator to keep a snapshot of the configuration in each computer in his network. In the event of any change in either software or hardware configuration, the administrator is alerted by visual messages.
Steel inventory is among very less inventory audit software which does not need any kind of software or services to be installed in the client computers. Steel inventory is capable of tracking software and hardware components in the entire network by the click of a button.
Steel Inventory also is capable of tracking software installations. This helps in keeping the licensing policy under strict control.

Network Inventory Lite 2.5.2 provides you with a misc networking tool which is created for the purpose of gathering information on operating systems, software (including OS hot fixes) and hardware (disk size, memory size, CPU, and serial number). All the gathered information can be exported to a text file for further analysis.

Enhancements:

• Adds export to txt file feature

A computer inventory application with a web based interface. zCI is freeware for computer inventory. It is free but contains a lot of corporate feature. zCI has 100% web-based user interface, including its automatic data gathering mecahnism.
Also, zCI contains a peripheral inventory capability and facilities to manage device ownerships. Even some expensive computer inventory software doesnt have these capabilitites.
zCI provides client programs for Windows and Linux/Unix operating system. The client programs automatically collect hardware and software information, such as hardware list, software list, computer serial number, monitor serial number, MAC address and etc. The free zCI gives you more and better features compared to many non-free inventory softwares.
Through zCI management websites, IT staffs can do almost everything related to computer inventory. They can search for computers using multiple filter, such as memory size, processor speed, OS type and etc. They can list how many and which computers that have a processor type, or RAM size, or etc.
Also, users can list computers, monitors and peripherals based on their usage and ownership status. Device inventory data history is also available to check whether a computer has changes in their hardware and operating system configurations.
Main features:
- The core of computer inventory is data gathering. The most ancient type of inventory data gathering is IT staffs visit every computer and record the computer model, serial number, operating system, hard disk capacity, etc. In zCI, data gathering is so easy because users only need to execute less than 10 KB program, wait for about 10 seconds to have the data sent to database and get a display of the computer information in a web page from zCI server. The only manual inputs users must do are when updating device ownership information and serial number of peripheral and monitor, since those data cannot be collected automatically.
- Because of that simplicity, computer users does not have to order IT staff to visit, just place the zCI client software on an intranet website and e-mail users to download and execute the program. The better way, set zCI client software in login script. The IT staffs just can sit in their room waiting computer data, then attaching additional device ownership and serial number data
The following informations are retrieved automatically by zCI client programs:
- Computer vendor, model and serial number. If it is not branded computer, data will be taken from motherboard information which the serial number may be similar between computers.
- Network domain name and user name.
- Operating system name and installation date.
- Processor type and maximum speed, not current speed.
- Memory/RAM size in megabyte.
- Installed softwares.
- Hard drive model and size in gigabyte.
- SCSI Controller model.
- CD/DVD Drive model.
- Floppy drive existence.
- Display Adapter chipset name.
- Monitor model (depends on installed driver) name and serial number.
- Sound adapter model.
- Network adapter model and its IP address.
- Peripheral model names
System requirements:
- Windows Scripting Host (WSH) min. version 5.6
- WMI Core min. ver 1.5
- Any web server can be used as long as it supports PHP.
- PHP min. version 4.1.
- Harddisk space 5 MB.
- MySQL at least version 4.1.
Other database that support subquery:
- Frontbase
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- Postgre SQL
- Sybase-CT
- SQLite

This helpful application will create a detailed list of your entire computers hardware. The list itself is expandable so you will be able to see all kinds of information about your computers inventory. This is very helpful, because you will not have to search for this information in the Internet, but will be able to obtain with one single click. The program itself is very simple to use, all you have to do is to start it and click collect info. You will be able to see things like the version and the serial number of your BIOS, the manufacturer and the exact model of your CD-ROM, hard drive and video adapter. It can also tell you the exact type, clock speed and model of your processor. This handy piece of software can create a full list of all your network drives and display the MAC addresses of all your network devices, ideal if you are configuring your network. This program runs on all Windows systems.