SIW

dD just cam accross this fantastic tool from Gabriel Topala:
http://www.gtopala.com/

To quote the web site:
"SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner. SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Computer (Software and Hardware) Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management)."

There is an installer and also a stand alone executable.
There is also functionality similar to SnadBoy (the password revealer) to reveal any password areas. Just click on the Eureka! button. You can change the machine's MAC address, scan the network 'hood, ....

This one is going straight into dD's toolkit. It beats the pants of msinfo in gathering data from a Windows box!

dD