Running MSinfo32 and DxDiag

[Kieran10]

Hey so my friend needed to run Msinfo32 and DxDiag commands what do these do? Do they edit or update drivers? Or general stuff like that? I am worried it did.

Thanks,
Kieran

 

[SchizTech]

Those "commands" don't really make any changes. They just bring up information reports from Windows. The system information panel (brought up by the msinfo command) and dxdiag panel are utilities in Windows which simply display certain information about the system: general information in the case of the first and more graphics-specific in the case of the latter, with some overlap between the information presented.

 

[ko888]

The only way those two commands would modify anything is if they were infected with malware. If you think those commands modified anything then run a malware scan.