hey!

im looking for a method to get the current cpu load (in percentages). i had a function once, but it blocked my system like 1 sec before returning the wanted value, and if i want to check the load every second it would block my program constantly. does anybody know a non-blocking method to do this?

i also want to get the read of the current processor temperature. is that possible without installing any additional software? i heard intel hat a program that could be used under vb, but that's not what i want. any standalone windows api/dll would be great.
thanx a lot!

Hey,

I don't know much about VB but there are Windows API's for reading the CPU load and the CPU temperature.

For CPU load you could check out ... http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/computer_system_hardware_classes.asp

For CPU temperature u could check out ...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/computer_system_hardware_classes.asp

For any of the hardware properties, you could try and look up the WMI (Windows Management Instrument) Class.

Thank you.