
10 CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Programming and the Java Language
1.2.1 Displaying Windows Configuration Information
To display system configuration information on a Windows computer, run
msinfo32.exe from the command line. From the Start menu, select Run and
type msinfo32 into the text box. You will get a display similar to the one in
Figure 1.2, although the information displayed varies, depending on your
hardware and the version of Windows you are running.
As you can see in Figure 1.2, this computer is running Windows Vista. The
CPU is an AMD Turion™ 64 processor running at 2.4 GHz, and the com-
puter has 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of which is not being used ...