You may have seen the computer information displayed on the trainer’s computer during a class or on virtual machine demos at TechNet events. The small utility that allows you to display the information such as, IP address(es), domain\/workgroup, CPU, RAM, and logged on user information is called BackInfo.exe. Some other similar utilities also display this information as a screen saver which can be a security risk, especially on servers where you could be displaying the Administrator’s login name, along with the other information.<\/p>\n
For some reason Microsoft doesn’t make it easy for you to download this free utility. They have made it a part of Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA), which is a whopping 97.2MB package.<\/p>\n
The tool works great but you will notice that it reports Windows Vista as Microsoft Windows NT version 6.0 Professional (Build 6000)<\/em> and Windows Server 2003 as Microsoft Windows NT version 5.2 Advanced Server<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have seen the computer information displayed on the trainer’s computer during a class or on virtual machine demos at TechNet events. The small utility that allows you to display the information such as, IP address(es), domain\/workgroup, CPU, RAM, and logged on user information is called BackInfo.exe. Some other similar utilities also display this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,11,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tips-tricks","category-toolsutils"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}