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#1181
I usually run Winamp and I don't disable Avast or Process Explorer either. :)
My images have almost always worked (there was one exception - I had a MBR glitch).
I suspect Speccy needs to directly interrogate the HDD controller to retrieve the info (i.e. SMART and temperature data).
I doubt that AV and media players need to do that (i.e. they rely on the OS to provide them with data).
It should be possible to prove that by using a different system info program.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they would all crash the OS.
As an aside, I don't know why Windows doesn't have a temperature/voltage monitor built into the OS.