Question

I am looking for a small, preferably free tool which my non-techie customer can download on their machine and when run, it gives them following

1. OS Name version
2. Browser name, version
3. Screen resolution.

They currently have some problems with my website and I am guessing it has something to do with OS browser combination.

Answer 1

http://supportdetails.com/

Will pretty much do everything you want :)

Answer 2

Unless your site's users are technically advanced, you can get most of this information from your site logs. Each HTTP request carries the USER-AGENT header, which on all major browsers tells you the browser and OS version. This can be spoofed, but again, if your users aren't technically advanced, they won't be spoofing.

That won't tell you screen resolution, though, I don't think. But you can get it via JavaScript on your pages, via the screen object.

I mention these because in the first one, you may already have the info; and in the second, it's easy to get. Much easier, I suspect, than getting users to download and run a tool...

Answer 3

You can do these things by writing a HTML page with javascript unless you have some specific requirement for which you need any free app.

You can get the info in following way: 1. OS

function yourOS() {
var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if (ua.indexOf("win") != -1) {
    return "Windows";
} else if (ua.indexOf("mac") != -1) {
    return "Macintosh";
} else if (ua.indexOf("linux") != -1) {
    return "Linux";
} else if (ua.indexOf("x11") != -1) {
    return "Unix";
} else {
    return "Computers";
}

}

Screen Resolution: (screen.width>=1024) && (screen.height>=768)

Browser: var browser=navigator.appName;

var b_version=navigator.appVersion;

var version=parseFloat(b_version);