Here is an update on the AWCC issue I have been experiencing since the last Windows update. Tesla1856 you have provided a partial fix in your posting to another user here also having AWCC issues of a different but possibly related.  The post is here Solved: Aurora R7, AWCC nightmare - Dell Community   And your solution about static electricity FLEA power seems to have stopped the AWCC crashing at entering/resuming sleep mode.   The other issue with the games I believe may be video card driver related and only happens if I'm using the video card's DSR function to make my resolution higher then my monitor's native screen res of 1920x1080. It also appears to be that only the system tray icon for the thermals is what is triggering the crash.  If opened on screen AWCC remains functioning but has a very short response time if adjusting any settings for thermals.   So I am going to mark this issue as solved.   I'm just curious Telsa, do you do a the fleapower  procedure on any sort of regular basis on your desktops.  I never have never ever experienced this sort of issue before.  At first I thought it was only for laptop and all in one computers.  But I decided it was worth the try, and low and behold it worked on my desktop.
Hello, I was wondering if someone is having any similar or same issues and have some suggestions that I can get this fixed resolved? Every since the past two or three Windows updates I have started having crashing issues with the Alienware Command Center software which runs my computers cooling system. The issue is always a .Net runtime error ID 1026.  Application: ThermalController.exeFramework Version: v4.0.30319Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.Exception Info: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exceptionat AlienLabs.CommandCenter.Tools.Classes.TaskbarIcon.TaskbarIcon.CreateTaskbarIcon()at AlienLabs.CommandCenter.Tools.Classes.TaskbarIcon.Interop.WindowMessageSink.OnWindowMessageReceived(IntPtr, UInt32, UInt32, UInt32) It always occurs whenever going into/waking from sleep mode and whenever launching or existing certain games. Of course Dell/Alienware no longer support this out of warranty PC as it is going on 6 years old now. I checked the support site and they have no options for updating the command center software. So would it do any good to try and contact Microsoft on this issue? Always before in the past if your machine came with OEM Microsoft would never help. Because of this issue I have stopped allowing any .Net or any of its runtimes to be updated. It's clear something has changed that is effecting Alienware's software. What I do not understand is why they do not support such a critical piece of software for a longer period of time with updates. The last update was October of 2017. I bought my machine in August 2017.   
Aurora R6, .Net runtime