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Old December 21st 15, 10:33 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
John Doe[_8_]
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Default Anybody use Open Hardware Monitor?

Great utility, typical of open-source software, but I don't know how to
reset everything.

Like if I clumsily set the fan speed maximum two 2 billion RPM and I want
to get it back to the starting levels without doing it manually with the
scroll wheel. I can reset the time bar by choosing a time option. But how
do you reset the minimum and maximum chart values?

Thanks.
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Old December 21st 15, 08:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Paul
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Default Anybody use Open Hardware Monitor?

John Doe wrote:
Great utility, typical of open-source software, but I don't know how to
reset everything.

Like if I clumsily set the fan speed maximum two 2 billion RPM and I want
to get it back to the starting levels without doing it manually with the
scroll wheel. I can reset the time bar by choosing a time option. But how
do you reset the minimum and maximum chart values?

Thanks.


Do they use the Registry for their settings,
or being Open Source, have they left a file
in %userprofile% for this purpose ?

You can watch the program using ProcMon (Process Monitor)
from Sysinternals.com if you want, and detect registry
transactions there.

When a person writes a program, sometimes they
attempt to store preferences in a file stored
in the Program Files folder. This is verboten.
On a modern OS, the file ends up actually stored
in a Roaming folder. The Program Files folder set
is owned by TrustedInstaller, so you would not
normally have permission to write in there. And
then storage of preference files would fail.
But since the OS has a "redirection trick" it uses
so programs of that sort won't break, it gives
the impression it worked.

In any case, whether I'm looking for WriteFile
transactions or Registry operations, those
could be tracked in Process Monitor. By setting
the filter in Process Monitor, you can ask it
to only show you transactions for the program
you're working on.

You could also use Regedit and search for the
key in there, but it doesn't take much to make
finding it almost impossible. For example, if the
Registry entry used "OHM" instead of
"Open Hardware Monitor", you'd have
fun finding it. That's why I'm recommending
ProcMon as an alternative, in case the program
is "hiding".

Paul
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Old December 23rd 15, 02:08 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
John Doe[_8_]
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Default Anybody use Open Hardware Monitor?

Paul wrote in :

Do they use the Registry for their settings, or being Open Source,
have they left a file in %userprofile% for this purpose ?

You can watch the program using ProcMon (Process Monitor) from
Sysinternals.com if you want, and detect registry transactions there.


Process Monitor is intimidating but really not difficult to use. Right
clicking on an entry and selecting the filter option allows excluding
everything else. And that removes the clutter. I used it for something
else after you mentioned it.

Currently, I'm trying MSI Afterburner for hardware monitoring. After
finding a readable skin, it looks better than Open Hardware Monitor. And
it allows tweaking the GPU.
 




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