Setting up Alerting on HWiNFO64

Categories Technology

Step 1. Write PowerShell script to send email to yourself

The first step in setting up alerting for HWiNFO64 is to write a PowerShell script (.ps1) that sends a customized email to your email address or phone number. Here are the parameters that will need to be set for this script:

$EmailFrom = Enter the email address from which the message will originate from. Place in quotations (“”).

Note: The email address in this field does not have to be one that is active. You can use a dummy email address (ex. “alerts@braedensantos.com”)

$EmailTo = Enter the email address which the message will be sent to. Place in quotations (“”).

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My Gaming Computer

Categories Technology, Video Games

Last December, I ended up pulling off building myself a gaming rig with the latest Intel Coffee Lake i5 CPU (my system requirements do not warrant an i7 at this time) and NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 Ti that was released a month prior. This is my main computer for everything that I do, such as playing the latest PC games, emulating video games from the past, doing work on this website/blog posts, virtualization, and doing college work.

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