MSINFO32.exe

System Information - display details about hardware configuration, computer components, software and drivers.

Syntax
 Msinfo32 [/pch] [/nfo PathName] [/report PathName ]
 [/computer ComputerName] [/showcategories]
 [/category categoryID] [/categories categoryID]
Key
 /nfo PathName Save the information as a .nfo file
 An .nfo file name extension will be appended to the name if needed.
 /report PathName
  Output a text file
 /computer Get details from a remote computer
 /categories Display or output the specified categories
 /category Set focus to a specific category at startup
 /pch Display History View
 /showcategories
 Start System Information with the category IDs displayed
 instead of the friendly names or the localized names.
 For example, when you use this switch, the Software Environment
 category is displayed as the SWEnv category.
 SWEnv is a valid categoryID argument for the /category switch
 and the /categories switch.

If no options are specified the GUI interface will open.

MSinfo32 can also be started from Help ➞ About rather than the command line, it is not normally in the system path, but can usually be found in:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\

Generation of the text file can take some time, depending on the complexity of the system.

If you have problems getting MSInfo32 to run, check permissions on the following key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSInfo\

Msinfo32 is a replacement for WINMSD

Examples

Create a text report file in the folder C:\Temp with a name of Test.txt:

msinfo32 /report C:\TEMP\test.txt

Create an NFO report file in the folder C:\Temp with a name of Test.NFO:

msinfo32 /nfo C:\TEMP\test.nfo

View System Information for a remote computer with a UNC name of Server64:

msinfo32 /computer Server64

List all the available category IDs:

msinfo32 /showcategories

Display only System Summary information and create an .nfo file called mysummary.nfo containing the same information:

msinfo32 /nfo mysummary.nfo /categories +systemsummary

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Related commands

SYSTEMINFO - List system configuration.
MSIinfo - Edit or display the summary information stream of an MSI database. (Windows Installer SDK).
Equivalent PowerShell: Get-CIMInstance - Get WMI class information.