It is called AIDA32, it is a freeware program (with no "extra" junk as far as I can tell). Bascily, once installed, you can run reports and it will give you 80+ pages of information about your computer... WAY more then you will every use (or probable understand), but some information may come in handy.
I've been using the Enterprise version (also free) with great success at where I work. (Which has a lot of older and donated comptuers - so it is nice to know more about each of those.)
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