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Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit (Version 8.2g)

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The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, network inventory, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, security benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

• Operating Systems: Runs on Windows 7, 2008 R2, Vista, 2008, 2003, XP, 2000, NT 4, Me, 98, and 95. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows are supported.
• Browsers: Runs on Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and many others.
• File size: 3150 KB.
• License: The license associated with this product allows for free personal use only. Use on multiple PCs in a corporate, educational, military or government installation is prohibited. See the license agreement for details.
• Wish to run the Belarc Advisor on your corporate network, see FAQs below.

Belarc's commercial products are used for software license management, hardware upgrade planning, cyber security status, information assurance audits, IT asset management, configuration management, and more.
DOWNLOAD TIPS:

• Click on the Click Here to Download icon.
  
• Click the Run button in Internet Explorer's File Download pop-up.
  
• The Belarc Advisor will automatically install, build a profile of your hardware and software, and display this in your Web browser.
  

FAQs:

Q: Will the Belarc Advisor send my PC profile information up to a web server?

A: No. The Belarc Advisor creates a local Web page and does not send up your PC profile to a Web server or anywhere else. For more info on Privacy, please click here.

Q: Must any previously installed Belarc Advisor be removed before installing a newer version?

A: No. The installer will automatically remove any previous Belarc Advisor version.

Q: When checking for new security definitions the Advisor gets an error. What can I do?

A: This is usually caused by a software firewall installed on your computer. Check the settings of your firewall for options that block or permit applications to connect to the Internet. If your firewall needs to allow specific programs access to the Internet, allowing the BelarcAdvisor.exe program should work. You'll find BelarcAdvisor.exe in the C:\Program Files\Belarc\Advisor directory on your computer.

Q: The Advisor has installed and finished a discovery of my PC's hardware and software, but I do not see any results.

A: This usually happens when the Windows file assocation, for the HTML file extension, is misconfigured on your computer. Most often, this is caused by trying out a new browser and then uninstalling it from your computer. Here's how you can fix that.

On Windows 7: Open Windows explorer to the c:\Program Files\Belarc\Advisor\System\tmp directory (on 64-bit Windows c:\Program Files (x86)\Belarc\Advisor\System\tmp). Then right click on the file named (COMPUTERNAME).html (where COMPUTERNAME is the name of your PC) and click Open With... on the pop-up menu. Then choose your preferred browser on the Open With dialog. When you next run the Belarc Advisor the results will show in your browser.

On Windows Vista: Open Windows explorer to the c:\Program Files\Belarc\Advisor\System\tmp directory (on 64-bit Windows c:\Program Files (x86)\Belarc\Advisor\System\tmp). Then right click on the file named (COMPUTERNAME).html (where COMPUTERNAME is the name of your PC). In the pop-up menu, click Open With and choose your preferred browser from the list, or click Choose Default Program... and then choose your preferred browser. When you next run the Belarc Advisor the results will show in your browser.

On Windows XP: Open the Folder Options windows control panel, and on the File Types tab select the HTML Document file type. Then click the Change... button and choose your preferred i web browser. When you next run the Belarc Advisor the results will show in your browser.

If that doesn't work for you, open this file:

c:\Program Files\Belarc\Advisor\System\tmp\(COMPUTERNAME).html

(where COMPUTERNAME is the name of your PC) using the File|Open... menu command in your web browser.

Q: Can I purchase a license to run the Belarc Advisor on my corporate network, or my customer's network?

A: We do not permit use of the Belarc Advisor for commercial purposes, however we suggest that you take a look at these products, which we do license for commercial use:

	BelManage automatically creates an accurate and up-to-date central repository (Configuration Management Database, or CMDB), consisting of detailed software, hardware and security configurations. Reports include Security Audits, Software Licenses, XP and Vista upgrades, Change History, Health Status, Trend Logs and more.
	BelManage - Small Network Option is a full featured package targeted to systems as small as fifty computers.
	BelSecure automatically does a vulnerability assessment of your IT systems, checks security policies, configuration settings, and discovers other information about the host such as anti-virus status, application versions, security patches, user accounts and more.
	beITsmart is a service hosted by Belarc.

We do offer some charitable organizations a license to use the Belarc Advisor at no cost, under certain conditions.
Please send us information about your charity, a url and the number of PCs and servers. Email: info@belarc.com