"Irv" <Irv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to monitor your hard drive temperatures in Vista without
> third
> party software?
No. It's simply not possible. The ability to monitor hardware components
depends on the hardware manufacturers writing drivers and making software
available that both expose this data to the system. And it's very specific
to what hardware you're using so there isn't really anything in Vista itself
that I'm aware of (and if there was, it would simply be using the data
exposed by drivers, for reasons I've already covered).
> Has anyone found third party software that will work with Vista to monitor
> hard drive temperatures?
Sure.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Again, it assumes the data is made available by the drivers your hardware
manufacturer provide.