I would like to run full diagnostics on my computer and a few others. How does one go about doing that. Do I need to download any special software?

What type of diagnostics? What is your goal? Inventory (Software or Hardware)? Disk clean-up? Spyware/Virus scans? Can you be specific as to what exactly you're looking for? Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

go to www.pcpitstop.com for some free diagnostics.

"What type of diagnostics? What is your goal? Inventory (Software or Hardware)? Disk clean-up? Spyware/Virus scans? Can you be specific as to what exactly you're looking for?" Sorry, I'll try to be more specific. I've got a compaq presario notebook computer and I'm using AutoCAD 2006. Some of the files I'm working with are becoming too cumbersome for my computer to handle, so I'm in the market for a better computer. The diagnostics I'm trying to get are all the things about my computer that the new computer will need to beat such as graphics speed, processors speed, more RAM, etc. (all the things that make graphics processing - or any kind of processing - go faster). I don't know exactly all the things I should be looking for, so I was hoping to run a full system diagnostics program that produced a report on just about everything in my computer so that I could show it to an expert who could then advise me on a better computer.

I am an Autocad user myself. Autocad can be memory intensive. I reccomend at least doubling the amount of RAM you are using. Go to www.crucial.com to identify how much RAM your machine can accomodate. best of luck Frank :

Belarc Advisor is good. http://www.belarc.com and go to Free Download and Download. Then install. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.