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Downloads:

1,353

Downloads of v 2.0.20161030:

1,184

Last Update:

30 Oct 2016

Package Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Hanna Nao'm

Tags:

hardware freak system information util utility tool

Hardware Freak

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2.0.20161030 | Updated: 30 Oct 2016

Downloads:

1,353

Downloads of v 2.0.20161030:

1,184

Maintainer(s):

Software Author(s):

  • Hanna Nao'm

Hardware Freak 2.0.20161030

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All Checks are Passing

3 Passing Tests


Validation Testing Passed


Verification Testing Passed

Details

Scan Testing Successful:

No detections found in any package files

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Hardware Freak, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Hardware Freak, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Hardware Freak, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade hardware-freak -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade hardware-freak -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install hardware-freak
  win_chocolatey:
    name: hardware-freak
    version: '2.0.20161030'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'hardware-freak' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '2.0.20161030'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller hardware-freak
{
    Name     = "hardware-freak"
    Version  = "2.0.20161030"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'hardware-freak':
  ensure   => '2.0.20161030',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved by moderator gep13 on 01 Nov 2016.

Description

Hardware Freak is a free system information utility designed to present you a lot of information about the hardware found inside your PC. This tool will give you information about the CPU, BIOS, Motherboard, RAM Memory, Graphics card, Sound card, Hard Drive, External storage devices, Operating system, Optical Media, Networking, Printers, Keyboard, Mouse and USB Ports.

If u ever had any question about any of the listed components, this utility will provide you with the answer, giving you the full picture about your system.

Hardware Freak is now faster and lighter than ever!!

Version 2.0

So, what's new?

  1. System Summary was added-> Now, in the end of your system test, "Hardware Freak" will generate a short report, including the most important information about your system, and you can add/edit this report before saving it to your system as a text file.

  2. Battery information was added-> for those of you who have laptops and want more information about the battery, including information about the battery capacity, chemistry, charge rate, status, model, and more...

  3. Better hard drive information -> Hardware Freak can now show you the temperature of your hard drive. Your hard drive must have S.M.A.R.T support for this feature to work.

  4. Hardware Freak Advisor (Beta) is now included -> This feature is designed for people who don't have much knowledge about PC hardware. The idea behind it is to simply translate hardware stuff into words, so that people without much knowledge in computers could get a better idea about their system. This feature is still in beta edition and for now it supports Intel CPUs only. You might encouter bugs so please report them to [email protected].

  5. Hardware Freak now can run in your system background. If you want hardware freak to stay opened, you can go to options-> Run in background when minimized. This will remove Hardware Freak from your taskbar and add an icon to the notifications zone. Double click the icon to open hardware freak again. You can always disable this feature by clicking on the option again. This feature can be extremly useful when you want to keep track of your CPU usage, clock, RAM usage and HDD temperature.

  6. You can add Hardware Freak to your system startup. Just go to Options-> Open hardware freak on startup. You can also delete hardware Freak from your startup by performing the same step again.

  7. Bugs and mistakes were fixed.

PACKAGING NOTE: This is a self contained package that includes the executable. It will make an icon on your desktop and Start Menu. It does not actually "install."


tools\VERIFICATION.txt
Verification is intended to assist the Chocolatey moderators and community
in verifying that this package's contents are trustworthy.
 
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/hardware_freak.html
http://download.cnet.com/Hardware-Freak/3000-2086_4-75578466.html
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Hardware-Freak_program_71126.html
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Hardware-Freak.shtml
http://hardware-freak.en.uptodown.com/

sha256 checksum of .EXE file is 4A2BC057B101EFF62F5C874E4E167450E5A97915288075108D7B388F3FCF1049
tools\HardwareFreak.exe
md5: 02FEBD1D04B56A7EA970ADDCB1EC239F | sha1: 0D75EA46973BE51C0C6181B283E4146575EC7F61 | sha256: 4A2BC057B101EFF62F5C874E4E167450E5A97915288075108D7B388F3FCF1049 | sha512: 1DD5A9469FD81B18D06CCBED9A17E9AD2E69D0E369DC97F9D00F3F626819B1A813505E860E0D71397528FFBD386FE7D226242F00247776942FD9035E20494F1A
tools\chocolateyuninstall.ps1
$packageName= 'hardware-freak' 

remove-item "$env:Public\Desktop\Hardware Freak.lnk" -Force -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue'
remove-item "$env:ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Hardware Freak.lnk" -Force -ErrorAction 'SilentlyContinue'
tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1
$packageName= 'hardware-freak' 

Install-ChocolateyShortcut -shortcutFilePath "$env:Public\Desktop\Hardware Freak.lnk" -targetPath "$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\$packageName\tools\HardwareFreak.exe"
Install-ChocolateyShortcut -shortcutFilePath "$env:ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Hardware Freak.lnk" -targetPath "$env:ChocolateyInstall\lib\$packageName\tools\HardwareFreak.exe"

Log in or click on link to see number of positives.

In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).

Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status

abandonware, thus the EXE insertion and linkto web.archive.org


This package has no dependencies.

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