How do I find this information out without looking inside the computer?

tuuf <tuuf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Run Belarc Advisor

Google it.

"tuuf" wrote in
<news:F49ABFAC-866C-43EF-8D47-E56055C66664@microsoft.com>:

Read the motherboard or computer manual to see how many memory slots are
available.

Get a 3rd party utility to scan your hardware to tell you how many slots
are occupied.

Aida32 (because Everest Home which stopped being free; might find Aida32
for download somewhere with a Google search). Use "SPD" (Serial
Presence Detect) to see how many modules (sticks) there are since the
SPD is shown for each module. It shows physical RAM slots under
"Motherboard" but I'm not sure it is always accurate, so read the manual
for the physical slot count.

CPU-Z might also give the same info.


You sure that removing 2 screws and swinging out the side panel isn't
easier?

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> wrote:

GEEZ but yer a long-winded bastage.

Belarc advisor does it all... and telling the OP that takes only one
freakin' line.

Crucial.com has an excellent online scanner that will tell you everything
you need to know.

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"Lisa" wrote in <news:#e$rSbGzIHA.5108@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>:

You'll need to allow installation of their ActiveX control to run that
scanner.

What's your point?

"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
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"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
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Not necessarily.

Using Firefox, a page appears with the following text:

Browser Incompatibility

The online Crucial System Scanner requires Internet Explorer browser and
the use of ActiveX® technology to scan your system. If you use a
different Web browser, such as Opera™ or Mozilla's Firefox™, please use
our 112KB downloadable System Scanner instead.

Our downloadable System Scanner allows you to run the Crucial System
Scanner locally — get upgrade results on Crucial.com in any browser with
an internet connection.

Download:
http://images.crucial.com/drivers/CrucialScan.exe

Lisa wrote:
That installing Active-X components from a web source is a spectacularly bad
idea.

So is connecting to the internet.

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"HeyBub" <heybub@gmail.com> wrote:

of your knowledge, it's a ridiculous thought when one visits a website
of a reputable manufacturer or other entity.

CPU-Z is a freeware program that will tell you. Google it.
Louis

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Doesn't that depend on the Web source?

"Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@myrealboxXYZ.invalid> wrote:

Of course it does.

I believe Windows Updates uses Active-X, doesn't it? I wonder how
HeyBub gets his updates?

Osmosis?

Other available info can be found here: Start/Run: msinfo32

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"Lisa" wrote in <news:eyTjYtGzIHA.4040@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>:

Have you tried uninstalling ActiveX controls? They are not listed in
Add/Remove Programs. You can only disable them in the management
afforded within IE, not uninstall them. You'll have to know to
unregister them and where they get stored on the disk and how to delete
them since Windows Explorer won't show their files, neither of which is
known to most Windows users, or you can use some 3rd party utilities to
deregister and delete them. Once the user is done using an AX control
that they don't want anymore, it usually continues to pollute their hard
disk thereafter. It's like getting a letter that you do want in the
mail, opening it in the house, but thereafter never being able to toss
the paper or envelope so your house continually collects clutter.

Also my point is often such suggestions imply that these "online
scanners" don't require the installation of software, especially when
counterpointed against other posts that do mention software installs. I
wanted to make sure the OP knew that he WOULD be installing software.

"Kelly" wrote in
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You saw a branch in the tree shown in msinfo32 that tells the user:

- Number of memory slots on the motherboard?
- Number of memory modules?

I didn't see anything indicating the number of slots. While it shows
the total amount of physical memory, I didn't see where it shows how
many memory modules are used to provide that total memory capacity.

Say msinfo32 says you have 2GB of physical memory. Is that 2 memory
modules of 1GB apiece? Or 4 memory modules of 512MB apiece? Or 3
memory modules with 1 1GB and 2 512MB modules?

You don't uninstall ActiveX controls, you delete them.

"VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message
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Really? Sounds a bit too simplistic (and assuming you can even find
them).
I don't think it's generally a good idea to just delete OCX files, if that's
what you're suggesting.

Lisa wrote:

"Lisa" wrote in <news:u71YT9PzIHA.2184@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>:

Please do tell us the EXACT process to do that which is the SAME for
every AX object installed.

I didn't realize that "regsrv32.exe" was a "delete" operation. regsvr32
does not delete "them" (files). Or maybe "delete" was some larger
procedure that you didn't bother to define. You think using Windows
Explorer to select the AX *description* at "C:\Windows\Downloaded
Program Files" (a "special" folder and why Windows Explorer doesn't show
the actual files) will let you delete all AX files? The Adobe PDF AX
control is over in C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroPDF.dll. The AX installer can put the
file anywhere. Not all AX objects are recorded with an Uninstall key
entry so they show up in the Add/Remove Programs applet for easy removal
(but often results in incomplete removal).

How is the user to know what to delete? If the AX control is inside a
shared DLL, will the user know that and realize that the file should not
be deleted if other functionality is still needed? Not all AX controls
are containing within an .ocx file. How are you going to delete one AX
object (entry point) from msxml without lossing the entire library which
means losing other AX controls that you did not intend to remove? Are
YOU going to make yourself immediately available all day and every day
to provide guidance to the user on how to *properly* remove one AX
control and do so without affecting other functionality or leaving
remnants in the registry?

- You need to deregister them. Otherwise, they remain in the registry
and the user may end up seeing errors when they are called but the path
reference in the registry points to a file and entry point that no
longer exist.

- You need to delete the files, yes. Windows Explorer will not show you
the files. It shows you the object definition when you visit the
"special" directory that holds them (once you determine which folder
that is). I have deleted AX objects this way and I have ended up with
some remnant files for that AX object. Not a lot of users are really
comfortable with using a command shell to ensure that they delete ALL
files (there may be more than 1 for an AX control). When you are using
the DOS shell so you can actually see the *files*, how do you know which
..ocx, .dll, .inf, and other files comprise a particular AX object? They
may be similarly named. They may not.

Removing an AX control is only easy and simple if the developer made it
that way. Unfortunately, even with enterprise-level software,
developers are not keen on spending time on how to remove their
products. Their goal is to get them into your system, not out of it.

Here's an example. You go to Symantec and install their AX control for
their online scan. In Windows Explorer, you see the following AX
objects when you navigate Windows Explorer to C:\Windows\Downloaded
Program Files:

Symantec AntiVirus Scanner
Symantec RuFSI Utility Class

Which do you "delete" (right-click, remove) using Windows Explorer? One
is obvious. Remove the scanner AX object does not remove the RuFSI AX
object. What is RuFSI used for? Should you delete it, too? Is having
to do web research part of that simplistic "delete" scheme that you
didn't define? If you used their online scanner and then remove the
Symantec AntiVirus Scanner AX object, did that get rid of all the files
for it simply because the entry in Windows Explorer disappeared? No.
Now use a DOS shell to go delete the virscan*.dat file in that folder.
Don't go deleting all *.dat files because some were created by other AX
objects. What about the zdone.dat file? Was it for the Symantec
scanner AX object? You can't tell. Looks like a candidate, though.
There are some other .dat files in that folder so you'll have to use
notepad or a hex editor to make a guess as to whether they should be
deleted after removing the Symantec scanner AX object.

Yeah, oh, it is so simple to "delete" and AX object. If you have the
expertise, initiative, and stubbornness to fully extract an AX control
from your system and without causing interdependency problem then, yes,
the AX object can be "deleted" from your system. For the vast majority
of users, however, the AX object continues to pollute their system.