Total Network Inventory was designed with the user in mind, which is reflected in its interface that provides quick and unobtrusive navigation throughout the program. Total Network Inventory starts with a welcome screen with six large, image-coded buttons: "Run Scan Wizard", "Scan this PC", "Show Main Window", "Scan another PC", "Visit product homepage", and "View help contents". Depending on what you want to do, you simply click the desired button and immediately find yourself in that section of the program.

The main window of the program is divided into three areas. In the left area, there is a tree that displays all scanned remote PCs on a network. If you click on a machine in that tree, information about it will be displayed in the large central area of the main window. The "Categories" menu, floating in the right area of the interface, enables you to quickly choose a topic to be viewed in the central area (hardware, software, etc.). On top of the main window, there is a toolbar with all of the main commands, including "Scan Wizard", "Rescan", "Report Builder", etc. The main window is free from needless features and, therefore, is very comfortable to work with.

By clicking the "Run Scan Wizard" button in the welcome screen, or on the toolbar, you start the wizard that will quickly walk you through the five steps of the scan configuration. There are two types of scans available: Immediate Online Scan and Logon Script Scan. The latter type gives you an opportunity to add a call to the standalone computer scan program to user's domain logon script, so that you will be able to collect information about each PC that is logging on to the domain by using the specified logon script. The wizard will also prompt you to choose the method of computer discovery, which can be either through a network places overview or by specifying a range of IP addresses to scan. The scan is fast and only takes a few minutes.

Total Network Inventory comes with a Report builder, which lets you generate reports with just a few clicks of a button. Reports are rather beneficial because they present the information about the network machines in an easy to read and understandable manner. Report Builder allows you to generate a report on any topic that interests you ("Single category report"). For example, you can create a report with the information about a network adapter, IP-addresses, MAC-addresses, DHCP, DNS, and WINS settings for any number of network devices. Furthermore, in the "Multiple category report" mode, you can create brief reports on any combination of topics for any number of devices.

Sometimes reports take several pages to read. It may be difficult to find some particular data on several pages. For such cases, Report builder offers a "Find" option that enables you to specify a text string to search for in a report and when it is found a report is automatically scrolled down to that string. Among the other excellent conveniences, there is an ability to scale a report to make it larger or smaller, which allows you to view it in a size that is most comfortable for your individual eyesight.

You can print reports to paper for offline viewing or view them on screen. Report builder can export reports to any of these formats: PDF, RTF, XLSX or directly to Excel, CSV, HTML, BMP, JPG, or TIFF for further analysis. With the reports generated in Total Network Inventory, you get an up-to-the-moment overview of all network machines and their content any time you need it and right at your fingertips!

Hardware-related information:

• Processor type and frequency, current clock speed, external clock, multiplier, description, manufacturer, CPU status, socket designation, etc.
• Motherboard name and manufacturer, chassis name and manufacturer, BIOS information, system and memory slots, ports, etc.
• Memory size and memory modules.
• Monitor EDID information and video adapter details.
• Name, size, and type of all hard disk, CD, floppy, and removable drives, as well as details about all of the logical disks.
• Sound device, video and audio codecs.
• Network adapter name, IP-addresses and MAC-addresses, DHCP, DNS, and WINS settings, etc.
• Name, type, and settings of the printers.
• Name and type of modems.
• List of all system devices.

Software and OS-related information:

• Operating system name, type, version, build, serial number, etc.
• Service packs and hotfixes.
• Software installed on the individual machines.
• Contents of the "Program files" folder.
• Autorun applications starting from the autorun folder and from the registry.
• Name and version of the antivirus software.
• Database engines.
• Environment variables.
• All visible and hidden shared resources.
• All running processes.
• Services.
• User accounts.