Documentation
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2026 3:20 pm
DTLsaysWhat is a Windows system inventory tool inspired by the classic WHAT utility written by Stanley Rabinowitz for DEC VAX/VMS systems in the 1980s. Its goal is to produce a complete, readable report about a Windows machine from a single command, without a central server or a heavy installation process.
Features:
System identification and operating system details
Hardware inventory
Physical and virtual memory
Disks and logical volumes
Graphics adapters
Network configuration
Probable Internet services, grouped by service and protocol
IPv4 default gateway, IPv4 DNS servers, and IPv4 routing table
Installed software and Microsoft Store / AppX packages
Windows services
Running processes, grouped by process name
Optional process sorting by decreasing total RAM usage
Startup programs
Windows security status
Installed updates
Installed drivers, with duplicate entries removed
Local users and loaded profiles
Scheduled tasks
Local SMB shares and mapped network drives
Recent Windows event log analysis
Performance snapshot
Virtualization detection
Text report
HTML report
See:
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_Refe ... anual.html
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_User_Guide.html
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_Manu ... rence.html
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_Guid ... ateur.html
Repo: https://github.com/DidierMorandi/DTLsaysWhat
Features:
System identification and operating system details
Hardware inventory
Physical and virtual memory
Disks and logical volumes
Graphics adapters
Network configuration
Probable Internet services, grouped by service and protocol
IPv4 default gateway, IPv4 DNS servers, and IPv4 routing table
Installed software and Microsoft Store / AppX packages
Windows services
Running processes, grouped by process name
Optional process sorting by decreasing total RAM usage
Startup programs
Windows security status
Installed updates
Installed drivers, with duplicate entries removed
Local users and loaded profiles
Scheduled tasks
Local SMB shares and mapped network drives
Recent Windows event log analysis
Performance snapshot
Virtualization detection
Text report
HTML report
See:
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_Refe ... anual.html
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_User_Guide.html
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_Manu ... rence.html
https://netdtl.com/doc/DTLsaysWhat_Guid ... ateur.html
Repo: https://github.com/DidierMorandi/DTLsaysWhat