Seahorse
Member
Hi,
I have previously used Speedfan in my skins which comes with a number of limitations and has required the use of registry values, a custom .exe to determine graphics card and so on, the prospect of removing this complexity as well as being able to monitor additional temperatures and so on makes HWInfo very interesting.
I have published a new Rainmeter suite called Dashboard which uses HWInfo and has gone from a test-bed to fully featured in the last couple of weeks. It is still evolving while I play with layouts and information, but the skeleton and majority of the meat are on its bones so to speak.
I have a couple of observations and queries which in no particular order are:
Anyhow, these queries aside, it's great piece of software and the plugin does the job and allows access to all sorts of system information in a customisable way via Rainmeter and no doubt it will go from strength to strength.
Well done :angel:
I have previously used Speedfan in my skins which comes with a number of limitations and has required the use of registry values, a custom .exe to determine graphics card and so on, the prospect of removing this complexity as well as being able to monitor additional temperatures and so on makes HWInfo very interesting.
I have published a new Rainmeter suite called Dashboard which uses HWInfo and has gone from a test-bed to fully featured in the last couple of weeks. It is still evolving while I play with layouts and information, but the skeleton and majority of the meat are on its bones so to speak.
I have a couple of observations and queries which in no particular order are:
- The example skin shows
, you can simply useCode:
Plugin=Plugins\HWiNFO.dll, saves a few keystrokesCode:Plugin=HWiNFO
- At PC startup HWInfo needs me to click OK on a UAC box. I can live with that but it doesn't always pop up and then I have to manually launch HWInfo (Win8 64-bit )
- Sensors are checked but don't seem to start, which means double clicking the tray icon clicking the sensors button, minimising all 3 screens that pop up and refreshing skins that show Device names due to
Code:
UpdateDivider=...
Anyhow, these queries aside, it's great piece of software and the plugin does the job and allows access to all sorts of system information in a customisable way via Rainmeter and no doubt it will go from strength to strength.
Well done :angel:
