Exporting System Information

You can preserve your configuration information—always helpful when reconstructing a system—in several ways:

  1. Save the information as an .nfo file. You can subsequently open the file (on the same computer or on a different computer with System Information) to view your saved information. To save information in this format, choose File, Save. Saving this way always saves the entire collection of information.

  2. Save all or part of the information as a plain text file. To save information as a text file, select the category of interest and choose File, Export. To save all the information as a text file, select System Summary before you save.

  3. You can print all or part of the information. Select the category of interest, choose ...

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