HWInfo64 creates a startup key in 32bit registry on 64bit windows

[Tomorrow]

The 64bit version of the program should create its startup in 64bit registry not in 32bit. I just debugged a problem where i was unable to delete the hwinfo64 startup key from the registry via commandline. Turns out i was trying to delete a nonexistant 64bit key. Use System32\Reg.exe to create 64bit registry key instead of SysWOW64\Reg.exe that creates 32bit key.

I hope the bug report is clear enough and no dump files are nessesary.

 

[Martin]

This is OK, since using a 64-bit entry didn't work for startup, but the 32-bit one did. So it's intentional.
Nevertheless, on Windows Vista or later systems use the latest HWiNFO Beta, which doesn't use these entries anymore, but uses Task Scheduler instead.

 

[Tomorrow]

Not sure why it didnt work for you. I created my own 64bit startup key and hwinfo64 defenetly started properly on 64bit windows 7.
I used the following in commandline:
REG ADD HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v HWiNFO64 /d "C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\HWiNFO64.EXE" /f