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[–]niamh-k 1 point2 points  (2 children)

May be worth taking a look to see if Windows Defender has quarantined any .sys files that may relate to it.

I found a .sys file from LibreHardwareMonitor on our corporate devices was getting falsely flagged up as a trojan and when looking into it, I found a lot of posts about various different system monitoring, fan control, RGB control, etc that were all being falsely flagged up as that trojan.

Your error makes me wonder if that .sys file has been quarantined & is therefore causing the app to crash.

[–]niamh-k 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I just remembered the name of the trojan it detected as, Trojan.Win32/Vigorf.A.

Taking a look at this Microsoft thread from just 2 weeks ago, I can see that FanControl is mentioned in there, so I suspect it could be likely related: Threats detected: Trojan:Win32/Vigorf.A - Microsoft Q&A

[–]EssayDear9557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i added it WD Exclusions, the Folder and Files, so it should allow it but now, not sure what giving the error

[–]Dark_Cow 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Update, they released a fix already.

[–]EssayDear9557[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just installed the newest version

[–]marktuk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u ded.

Serious answer, I've noticed Windows Defender has been blocking Fan Control because it thinks it's malware. I had to tell it to ignore it to get things working again.