Guys I think I know the culprit. After the update 8.00-5400, HWiNFO task's action (inside Task Scheduler) point to the program without the double quotation marks ("") surrounded. Therefore, the Task Scheduler interprete its location as "C:\Program" with argument "Files\HWiNFO64\HWiNFO64Launcher.exe". The fix is simply adding the double quotation marks around, so its original location C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\HWiNFO64Launcher.exe (no quotation marks) becomes "C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\HWiNFO64Launcher.exe" (with quotation marks). You may also check the "Start in (optional)" box and make sure it looks like C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\ (without quotation marks). Voila, it's working again.
HWInfo Not Starting on Startup
- Thread starter Azortharion
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This should work without the quotes as well, at least it does for most users. Which Windows version do you have? maybe there's a difference..
I'm currently on Windows 11. The way I found out this was looking at the original path without quotes and press apply/OK but Windows pops up a dialog and ask as below. Maybe in other versions Windows doesn't ask this, but instead doing things implicitly? I think adding the quotes is worth a try. Then we could potentially narrow the scope down.
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Dantichrist
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Hi Martin.
I attached the exported task after the change for you (HWiNFO.txt). I just ran the task manually from the task scheduler to confirm that it worked. It has survived a few starts/restarts.
I also tried adding double quotes as Nagidrop suggested after I disabled/enabled autostart to remove/add the task but I got the same error when I tried to save it as I did with my previous post.
I'm running HWiNFO under my user. I'm the only user on this rig. I tested it by adding adminstrators and that worked as well.
While I was typing this I decided to try "Users" and that worked as well. That's probably how I'll leave it. I exported that xml as well. It's the HWiNFO-Users.txt file.
I hope that this helps.
i came from 7.4.0 worked perfectly always. Updated to 8.0.0, no startup anymore..
searched , and tried different things, still no succes.
I couldn't update to the beta version, i was no Pro user,
even adding the " marks in the taskmanager had no succes.
So i bought myself a license just now, so i could update to that beta version automaticly.. and for me, restarting.. it works
i use the HWinfo for Rainmeter
Hello Martin- I too was affected this week (or perhaps last) by the changes to auto-start. I previously used the command line options (from here) along with a task (I cannot recall if it was created by the program, or if I had created it from scratch).
- the task that HWiNFO creates is for a launcher EXE, which does not seem to accept any command line options
- the EXE seems to be created/deleted in the install directory based on the auto-start checkbox in HWiNFO
- if you disable auto-start but try to create a task manually, it seems that even with "highest privileges" the task fails with an elevation error- perhaps something changed with Windows? (I am on Windows 10 Professional, 22H2)
This is currently not supported by the launcher.
But if you need to use command-line parameters for Auto Start (wondering why?) I think you could replace the launcher with your custom batch file (.bat). That should work as the batch file will execute HWiNFO64 using an acceptable method.
I pass in the -l flag to automatically log a CSV. I did not write a wrapper BAT but instead used the properties on the EXE to run as administrator which in combination with the “highest privileges” setting on the task seemed to work. I do not recall having to do this before which leads me to suspect an underlying Windows change.
willrun4fun
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After disabling and reenabling autostart mine started working again. Windows 10.