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Key Details of Check My Specs

  • Check your PC specs and share/compare them online.
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  • There have been 7 updates
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Check My Specs 0/3

Editors’ Review

Download.com staff

CheckMySpecs is a free utility that scans your PC, posts its specifications online, and ranks it, letting you compare your machine to other users' PCs. The software claims it doesn't collect or post any personal data, but it does display your PC's name and all your running programs as well as a lot of information about your installed apps, Internet connection, and whether you're using a firewall. If that's not alarming enough, you're basically given no chance to review the data or decide if you want to post it online; as soon as you click Share My Specs, they're posted on the company's Web site. Topping it off, there's no way to remove your data; according to the Terms of Use, it belongs to the site's owners to use and publish as they see fit. Get the picture?

CheckMySpecs is indeed very easy use: Clicking one button labeled Collect the Data populated a compact interface tabbed with fields for Basic Data, CPU Information, Graphics, Currently Running, Installed Applications, and Misc Data. Once the fields are filled, you can click a button to share the data. With great trepidation, we pressed this button, expecting to see a page that let us review the data and decide Yea or Nay to post it, like nearly every other Web site that involves posting data collected on you or your PC. And our concerns were justified because the next thing we saw was our data posted on the Internet, with a unique ID that we could use to retrieve the stats or share them with others. CheckMySpecs' opaque app also caused an unhandled exception when we ran it again: Not an encouraging sign.

Many PC enthusiasts like to post and share the performance and hardware on the many public forums dedicated to the topic. It's not difficult to do, especially if you have a geekish or tweakish background. CheckMySpecs makes it entirely too easy. Some opt-in and opt-out choices, firmer security assurances, and the ability to exclude some data might help. Until then, check your specs at the door, and use CheckMySpecs at your own risk.

What’s new in version 3.0.0

Half size lighter application, new buttons, new graphical design, new specs site.


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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
3.0.0
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows NT
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 98
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server
  • Windows 10
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
14,195
Downloads Last Week
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Developer’s Description

Check your PC specs and share/compare them online.
Check My Specs is a light, free and simple software tool for Windows Os that checks with a click you PC techinal specifications and if you want you can share them online.You will get a unique Spec ID and you will have your own online spec page to compare or share your pc specs with others. The Spec ID is unique and can be used to access, share , compare you pc specs and much more . Check the latest soft updates, widgets, gadgets on the website. Check My Specs has been tested on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is a very light application, making is extremely easy and quick to to use.

Main features:

- Light Windows Free Software.- Check your computer's specs at the click of a button (under 5 seconds).- Compare your computer techinal performance with others.- See other shared specs on Top 50 Specs and recent specs.- Obtain a Spec ID and your own specs page : shareable and unique.- Use data to solve issues, upgrades, or what software can run.- Have CheckMySpecs on your blog, pages or iGoogle with the CheckMySpecs Gadget.- Add the checkmyspecs gadget on your Browser Google Toolbar.- Always Free to use.- The first site to bring computer specs online, easy sharebale and comparable.

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