Free software and hardware software for windows

An inventory, assessment and reporting tool that will find and determine if computers on a network are ready to run Vista The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment is a tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Through use of the detailed inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether the computers can run Windows Vista, where to find drivers for devices on the computers and provide recommendations for hardware upgrades, where appropriate.
The Windows Vista Hardware Assessment tool does not require the deployment of agent software on the computers being inventoried and assessed. Windows Vista Hardware Assessment will provide a quick, secure and easy way to determine which systems, in a networked environment, are Windows Vista ready.
System requirements:
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Software Requirements: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for storing inventory and assessment data. Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Excel 2007 for generating reports.
- 1.6-GHz or faster processor minimum
- 1 GB of RAM minimum
- 1 GB of available hard-disk space required
- 10/100 Mbps network adapter required

Hardware Control (NHC) helps you to easily control the hardware components of your Notebook (AMD and Intel).
Notebook Hardware Control works on all Notebooks (AMD and Intel). Some features are only available on newer Pentium CPUs.
Main features:
- prolong the battery lifetime and cool down the system with CPU Voltage Control and ATI Clock Control.
- full processor speed control with custom dynamic switching and CPU Speed Control (CPU policy)
- monitor the battery charge level and system temperature.
- control and monitor the Hard Drive with S.M.A.R.T management, acoustic & advanced power management and Hard Drive temperature monitoring.
- reduce noise with Notebook FAN Control (not for all Notebooks

Ciusbet Hardware BenchMark 1.8.854 is a powerful system analysis tool which lets you easily analyze the performance of your processor (with an option which analyzes the performance in either calculation or compression), graphic cards (DirectX 8) and hard disks. CHB also offers a global test that combines all the tests (processor, RAM memory, hard disk and graphic card).

One of the features in which are working, is an online ranking that is already active, then, any user can upload their results and compare them with hundreds of people of the whole world. Ciusbet HB has an updater, to be up to date with a single click.