System Investigator by Olrik (SINO) is a tool designed to make the life of the Techies on forums easier. It is a simple Graphical User Interface that acts as a pretty layer to windows.

SINO GUI as shown on Windows 7

SINO has all the options as shown in the picture to the left. Aside from that it has a few things that run natively such as checking if SINO is running in the latest available version by contacting the Artellos.com server and doing a few checks on your hard drive space and available memory.

SINO is compatible with Windows XP and above. It will not work on anything below Windows XP.

There is a help file available for technical helpers that would like to read about all the functions of SINO. Contact me for a copy of the files.

SINO also has an option called BBCode that will make the information produced by the tool prettier when you post it on forums like those of the Technical Sites to the right.

Download Links:
Latest EXE Download
Latest ZIP Download

Canned Instructions for running SINO on forums:

Please [url=http://artellos.com/sino-page]download[/url] SINO by [url=http://artellos.com/me]Artellos[/url].

[list][*]Save SINO to a place you can remember and run [b]SINO.exe[/b]. (If you downloaded the ZIP version you will need to extract it first)
[*]Then please check the following checkboxes:
[code]System Info
Services
Boot Check
Tasklist
Startup Items
Event Log
Ipconfig
Ping
Netstat
Hosts file
Shares
Routing Table[/code]
[*]Once checked, hit the [b]Run Scan![/b] button and wait for the program to finish the scan.

[*]A notepad window will pop up. Please copy all of the content into your next reply.[/list]
[color=#FF0000]Note: If you try to interact with the program once it’s started scanning it might appear to hang. The scan however will continue.[/color]