Kinetik v2.0.4: zip download

• The download is now a zip. Kinetik.zip contains Kinetik.exe and a lib folder. Extract it anywhere and keep the two together. The lib folder holds the LibreHardwareMonitor library that reads CPU temperature and AMD / Intel GPUs.
  • Until now that library was packed inside the exe and unpacked into memory when Kinetik started. Antivirus software treats programs that do this with suspicion, which is the likely reason some people saw Windows Defender flag Kinetik. The exe no longer does it, and is now about 290 KB instead of 3.3 MB.
• Security: every DLL is checked before it loads. Kinetik compares each file in lib with the exact version it was built with (by SHA-256) and refuses any that don't match. A DLL swapped into the folder can't run inside Kinetik, even when it's running as administrator.
• Elevated startup copies the lib folder too. With Run at startup on as administrator, C:\Program Files\Kinetik now gets the lib folder alongside the exe.

Updating from v2.0.3 or earlier: right-click the bar → Exit, then extract the zip into the folder where your old Kinetik.exe was, replacing it. If you use Run at startup, run the new Kinetik once as administrator (right-click → Restart as administrator) so the startup copy is updated too.

SHA-256 of Kinetik.exe: 399B8797D5B98BE607CDEE1779BA50D7ED10ABAD2BBC00C5B7A3CC3C6BCF77E1. To check your copy, run Get-FileHash Kinetik.exe in PowerShell.