Autostart works only for the system user who enabled the setting

[kamild1996]

Fan Control creates a scheduled task to make itself start automatically on boot. The problem is that the task is setup to use the currently logged in user for running the task, which has the side effect of the task not starting properly when other system accounts are used.

This seems easily fixable within the created task by changing the user account used for running the task to "Users".

[Rem0o]

How would that play out with the run as admin requirement?

[kamild1996]

How would that play out with the run as admin requirement?

It plays along, "Run with highest privileges" option is still respected, so it runs with admin rights on any system account as long as that account is in the "Administrators" group. I did test that task change with Fan Control, seems to work without any hiccups on Windows 11.

[IslandJohn]

The task it create now seems for any user and at highest privileges but this does not support limited access accounts..

[ecd0011]

I'm running into this with my personal and work user accounts. Both user accounts have administrator capabilities.

I installed and enabled "Start at user log on" on my personal account. This works fine when logging in as personal, however, FanControl does not start automatically for my work user.

Edit: Windows 11 Home

[Rem0o]

Hi, if you want auto-start on 2 different users, you'll need to duplicate the scheduled task in task scheduler and run it on that new user. Should do the trick.

[ecd0011]

Thanks @Rem0o! That did the trick.

For future reference, the issue was that the task was set to run as my "personal" account but only when that account is logged in.

I also tried @kamild1996's solution of setting to run as "Users" instead of a specific user. I didn't know where I needed to do this, hence my first comment, but this change also worked for me after trying it.

If anyone wants to try this:

1. Open Task Scheduler.
2. Find the FanControl task.
3. Right-click. Open Properties to change the user. Export and import to duplicate.

[AnloWho]

Thanks @Rem0o! That did the trick.

For future reference, the issue was that the task was set to run as my "personal" account but only when that account is logged in.

I also tried @kamild1996's solution of setting to run as "Users" instead of a specific user. I didn't know where I needed to do this, hence my first comment, but this change also worked for me after trying it.

If anyone wants to try this:

1. Open Task Scheduler.
2. Find the FanControl task.
3. Right-click. Open Properties to change the user. Export and import to duplicate.

I tried this and Fan Control still doesn't start on logon for non-Admin users. Is it the elevated privileges that causes an issue?

[Rem0o]

Is it the elevated privileges that causes an issue

Yes

[FranceBB]

From a user point of view, the esisest way would be to go to the scheduled task, look for FanControl and then change the settings as shown here: Basically this means that it's gonna run as soon as the computer boots using the saved Administrator credentials regardless on which user is logging on. I've put "Administrator" as an example, but it needs to change according to what your administrative user account is. Anyway, please note that you will NOT see the icon on the bottom right when you login with a different user, let's call this User1, as it will only be visible when Administrator logs in, however this will allow FanControl to start in background with the administrative credentials all the time, which means that the user profile is turned on.

I've personally checked this on my GPU which would otherwise idle at 65°C and it's now idling at 49°C, so it works.