Comments on: [RESOLVED] SpeedFan Does Not Show Hard Drive Temperature or SMART Info Under Windows Vista

By: Joel Hepworth

Joel Hepworth — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 01:35:21 +0000

Wonder this myself for a while, Why xp shows hard drive temps and not win 7 32 bit. This worked great! SHows my 3 Hardrives.It took me longer to write this review then to apply the fix. Cheers everyone who contributed to find out this solution! Thanks!

By: Keith Mullins

Keith Mullins — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:22:44 +0000

Speedfan always worked on this old machine with XP home, Then Vista, Then Windows 7 Pro. For it to access the SMART information from the HD, the run as administrator option did work just fine and was required. If you are having issues with it still, It is probably not the OS. One little hint though, make sure you change the properties of the shortcut to run as administrator and it will run as admin all the time without the right clicking and stuff.

By: Motorhead89

Motorhead89 — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:23:50 +0000

Yes, I have the same issue. I have XP installed then reformatted and installed Vista 32bit Ultimate and when I had XP installed Speedfan shows Hard Drive temp without any issues. Vista is being stupid. I installed Speedfan as administrator and I launched Speedfan as Administrator and still no Hard Drive Temp Readings. I’m furious and thinking about ditching Vista and Going back to XP because of this…Every Hard Drive Program I found, Vista can’t seem to get along with. Microsoft Really Screwed Up on Vista and Windows 7 will probably be worst… I love XP and so does most of the people that have grown to its simplicity in the last 10 YEARS. The best will never rest! STICK WITH XP! at least until Microsoft Stops being stupid and designs an O/S that functions properly.
-Motorhead89

By: WM

WM — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:57:52 +0000

I have a dual boot system, Vista 64 and XP. Speedfan works fine on XP, but not on Vista, even run as administrator.

By: Ian Lee

Ian Lee — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:53:51 +0000

AJ, have you followed the above instructions and remembered to choose “Run as administrator” when launching SpeedFan? It’s working well here on multiple Vista systems.

By: ajdo

ajdo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:34:27 +0000

This articles not correct. This only works for Windows XP but Not Vista…
For Vista work-around look at solution in Everest Lavalys Forum.

Thanks,

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