Guide to migrate from WinRing0 to PawnIO

[lars18th]

Hi,

Here a simple guide to "update" the stock SidebarDiagnostics 3.6.3 to use a new version of the LibreHardwareMonitor based on the PawnIO kernel driver instead of the old WinRing0:

1. Download a recent NB version of LibreHardwareMonitor. For example "LibreHardwareMonitor-net472" from : https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/actions/runs/17976043584
2. Decompress this version to any subdirectory and run it. When it requests to install PawnIO (if not previously installed) say YES.
3. Check that this updated version of LibreHardwareMonitor reads all values for your hardware.
4. Then to "update" SidebarDiagnostics:
   • Close SidebarDiagnostics
   • Go to the install directory <USER_DIR>\AppData\Local\SidebarDiagnostics\app-3.6.3
   • Make a backup of the files LibreHardwareMonitorLib.dll and HidSharp.dll.
   • From the directory of the downloaded LibreHardwareMonitor copy these files to the directory of SidebarDiagnostics (overwrite files):
     • HidSharp.dll
     • RAMSPDToolkit-NDD.dll
     • LibreHardwareMonitorLib.dll
     • LibreHardwareMonitorLib.pdb
     • LibreHardwareMonitorLib.xml
     • LibreHardwareMonitorLib.deps.json
5. Restart SidebarDiagnostics.

And that's all!

[viniciusmdev]

@lars18th In my LibreHardwareMonitor folder i don't have the file LibreHardwareMonitorLib.deps.json. But i copy all the other files and work with all readings for me. And for the people who don't know so much about github you need to login to download the file at https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/actions/runs/17976043584. Thanks for the guide. This software is so essential to me.

[thewriteway]

PawnIO is needed but SidebarDiagnostics is already fixed in my active fork https://github.com/thewriteway/SidebarDiagnostics

[Obspogon]

I don't see any RAMSPDToolkit-NDD.dll in the LibreHardwareMonitor dir, but the others I've found.

[lars18th]

I don't see any RAMSPDToolkit-NDD.dll in the LibreHardwareMonitor dir, but the others I've found.

Please, check it if without this file it works in your PC.

[Obspogon]

The link in the main post has all its artifacts expired.

[Obspogon]

These are the most recent build artifacts. Which one should I use?
https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/actions/runs/20878760951

[lars18th]

These are the most recent build artifacts. Which one should I use?

Check now with the last release v0.9.5: https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor/releases
and download the LibreHardwareMonitor.zip. Now it's already included there.