Belarc Advisor Alternatives

    Belarc Advisor is described as 'The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser' and is a System Information Utility in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Belarc Advisor for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Android, Linux, Android Tablet and PortableApps.com. The best alternative is CPU-Z, which is free. Other great apps like Belarc Advisor are Speccy (Freemium), GPU-Z (Free), AIDA64 (Paid) and Spiceworks (Free).

    This page was last updated Mar 11, 2021
    1. CPU-Z is a freeware system profiler (system monitor) application for Microsoft Windows (for all versions from 95 on) that detects the central processing unit, RAM, motherboard chipset, and other hardware features of a modern personal computer, and presents the information in one...
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      CPU-Z vs Belarc Advisor opinions
      This alternative is disputed. CPU-Z is still a legitimate alternative to Belarc Advisor, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
      Belarc extracts more than just the hardware specs of the system that CPU-Z shows. System software, applications, security patches, etc.
      Negative comment • about 6 years ago

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      Doesn't do software audits.
      Negative comment • almost 4 years ago

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    2. Speccy is an advanced System Information tool for your PC, available as installer version and as portable version in 24 languages. It does a quick scan of your machine and gives you a complete rundown of every piece of gear that's in your computer.

      Discontinued

      The latest version is from May 2018 https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/version-history

      Bundleware

      The installer propose you to install additional third party software like Google Chrome

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      Speccy vs Belarc Advisor opinions
      This alternative is disputed. Speccy is still a legitimate alternative to Belarc Advisor, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
      Belarc reports info about software whereas speccy only shows hardware info and some data about the os but not about apps and licenses.
      Negative comment • over 4 years ago

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    4. GPU-Z is a lightweight system utility designed to provide vital information about your video card and graphics processor.
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      Belarc reports info about software whereas speccy only shows hardware info and some data about the os but not about apps and licenses.
      Negative comment • about 3 years ago

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    5. AIDA64

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      AIDA64 is a system information, diagnostics, and auditing application developed by FinalWire Ltd., that runs on Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Tizen operating systems. It displays detailed information on the components of a computer.
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    6. Join millions of IT professionals and download Spiceworks, a free network monitoring software with network management tools, help desk ticketing app, network mapper and more.
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    8. Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux. It shows detailed system info, including hardware, environment, and kernel. It can use lm_sensors and ACPI for temperature and battery information. It also has four CPU banchmarks and two FPU benchmarks.

      Discontinued

      The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.5.1, released in April 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

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      Most users think Hardinfo is a great alternative to Belarc Advisor.
    9. lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc.
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      Some users think Hardware Lister is a great alternative to Belarc Advisor, some don't.
    10. SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
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      SIW shows more info than Belarc
      Positive comment • about 1 year ago

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      helps find lost passwords
      Positive comment • almost 2 years ago

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      I can't really speak about some of the others, but I have used SIW in previous years. It was perfectly accurate and non-obtrusive.
      Positive comment • almost 5 years ago

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    11. CPU Info provide main information about hardware and software of your device.
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    12. sysinfo is a graphical tool that is able to display some hardware and software information about the computer it is run on.

      Discontinued

      The Sysinfo website is down and Sourceforge reports the last update as being from 2013

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