Have installed & utilised Belarc Advisor in both machines.
I have managed to gain good information about what is on either machine, both hardware & software. It provides a lot of information, which is quite useful. More than I can utilise, or fully comprehend.
It certainly focuses on the security issues, with its listing of Microsoft hotfixes & how significant each of these are. Along with other, very deep internal security measures. This part I can see is useful for someone with significant experience in IT, who wishes & knows how to implement very tight security on his system.
It does what it does, & does it well. Beyond giving me the ready, solid reference, the only other use I can see for it is when I manage to get around to concentrating on implementing my home user network security measures.
It is helping me deal with my planned reinstallation & my IT support contractor. If I wanted to get into the security issues deeper, and had to discuss this with my contractor, I wonder if he would tell me that it is way more than I need, & try & dissuade me...? I have found this with some IT support contractors--seemingly only wanting to do what they want to do, not wanting to work with the client to help fulfill his larger, strategic aims. This is another discussion, of course.
The only fault I can find with Belarc Advisor is that it appears you can't print any of it for yourself ie. no 'print' function/button. There just maybe times when you aren't at your computer, & you wish to use the information. I also haven't found that you can export the results to your USB, instead of printing it. Perhaps with the type of information it provides, maybe it is just as well it can't do these things.
Thanks again.