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Bginfo VS xScan

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NinjaOne (Formerly NinjaRMM) provides remote monitoring and management software that combines powerful functionality with a fast, modern UI. Easily remediate IT issues, automate common tasks, and support end-users with powerful IT management tools. featured
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Bginfo logo Bginfo

This fully-configurable program automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system.

xScan logo xScan

xScan is an application for viewing the behavior of your computer and Mac.
  • Bginfo Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-31
  • xScan Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-08-02

Bginfo videos

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How to Use SysInternals BGinfo To Put Critical Information On Your Desktop Background

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  • Review - BGInfo informações úteis na área de trabalho dos usuários | http://professorramos.com

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Category Popularity

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Bginfo

xScan

Monitoring Tools
58 58%
Monitoring Tools
42% 42
Command Line Tools
100 100%
Command Line Tools
0% 0
Log Management
28 28%
Log Management
72% 72
Tool
100 100%
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0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Bginfo seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 10 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Bginfo mentions (10)

  • Sticky notes app that will actually stick notes
    BGinfo is one very simple approach to your basic premise. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Is there anyway to always show the PC name on a desktop?
    Check out BGInfo. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Show us your BI set up! Here's mine
    BGinfo runs on boot to overlay useful information on the wallpaper. Source: over 1 year ago
  • New IT dude needs help/guidance from some more experienced wizards here.
    Microsoft has BGinfo @ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/bginfo that is free and can be pushed to machines to display relevant data like machine name and IP right on the desktop and its highly visible to end users. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Create a toolbar with powershell?
    But, I recommend taking a look at bginfo. A lot of places just use this to constantly display the system's info on the Desktop. It seems like a campy solution, but it's a popular campy solution that no one questions. Source: over 1 year ago
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xScan mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of xScan yet. Tracking of xScan recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Bginfo and xScan, you can also consider the following products

Conky - Latest commit 262a292 on Dec 7, 2017 brndnmtthws Add missing build dep. Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop.

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.

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Argus Monitor - Argus Monitor is for monitoring and analyzing the temperature and the health status of the hardware parts of the system.

GKrellM - GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its...

iMac HDD Fan Control - iMac HDD Fan Control is an HDD fan control for the Mac operating systems by using which the Mac users can control the speed and noise of the fan of the Mac.

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