How to determine the hardware (CPU and RAM) on a machine?

Question

I\'m working on a cross platform profiling suite, and would like to add information about the machine\'s CPU (architecture/clock speed/cores) and RAM(total) to the report of

Answer 1

For Windows and Win32 C++ Projects:

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/system/hardwareinformation/article.php/c9087/Three-Ways-to-Retrieve-Processor-Information.htm

The above URL and contained article demonstrates 3 different ways to retrieve CPU info on Windows. The source code is at the bottom of the article, is well written, and has three useful classes that you can call from your Win32 C++ code.