AWCC don't needed anymore - here are light weighted tools for Alienware systems lights, fans, power profile control:

• AlienFX Control - AWCC alternative in 500kb. You can control you system lights (including hardware and software effects such as system parameters monitoring, ambient lights, sound haptic), fans, temperatures, power settings and a lot more.
• AlienFX-CLI - Make changes and check status of your AlienFX lights from the CLI (command line interface).
• LightFX - Dell LightFX library emulator. Support all Dell's API functions using my low-level SDK. It can be used for any LightFX/AlienFX-compatible game.
• AlienFX-Probe - CLI application to probe devices and lights and name it for using into other applications.
• AlienFan GUI control - simple fan and power control utility. Set you fan parameters according to any system temperature sensor, switch system power modes...
• AlienFan-CLI - Command line interface tool for control fans (and lights for some systems) as well as some power settings from command line.
• AlienFan-Overboost - CLI tool for manual/automatic fan overboost (set higher RPM that BIOS suggest).

Light control tools work with USB/ACPI hardware device directly, it doesn't require some other tools/drivers installed.

• It's way more fast. For older systems, change rate can be up to 20cps, for modern up to 120cps.
• It's flexible. I can use some uncommon calls to set wider range of effects and modes.
• Group lights, create light/fan Profiles for different situations, switch them by runing games/applications.

For fan/power controls, instead of many other fan control tools, like SpeedFan, HWINFO or Dell Fan Control, this tools does not use direct EC (Embed controller) access and data modification.
It utilize propietary Alienware function calls inside ACPI BIOS (the same as AWCC).

• It's more safe - BIOS still monitor fans and have no risk fans will be stopped at full load.
• It's more universal - Most Alienware systems have the same interface.
• In some cases, this is the only way - for example, Alienware m15/m17R1 does not have EC control at all.

Starting from the release 4.2.1, Antiviruses can detect virus into project package.
It's not a virus, in fact, but the kernel hack for load driver. You should add HwAcc.sys, kdl.dll and drv64.dll into antivirus exception list or do not use fan control (light control will work without this files).

• Alienware light device/Alienware ACPI BIOS (for fan control) present into the system and have USB HID driver active (alienfx-cli can work even if device not found, but Dell LightFX present into system).
• Windows 10 v1903 or later (binary files for 64-bit only, but you can compile project for 32-bit as well).
• alienfan-gui, -cli and -overboost always require Administrator rights to work (for communication with hardware).
• alienfx-gui requre Administrator rights in some cases:
  • "Disable AWCC" selected in Settings (stopping AWCC service require Administrator privilegy)
  • "Esif temperature" selected (access to ESIF values blocked from user account)
  • "Enable Fan control" selected (the same reason as for alienfan-gui)
• The rest of alienfx- tools does not require Administrator and can be run at any level.
• All tools does not require internet connection, but alienfan-gui and alienfx-gui will connect to GitHub server for update check if connection avaliable.

• Download latest release archive or installer package from here.
• (Optional) Ambient effect mode uses DirectX for screen capturing, so you need to download and install it from here. Other modes doesn't require it, so you need it in case if you plan to use Ambient effects only.
• (Optional) For LightFX-enabled games/applications, copy LightFx.dll into game/application folder.
• (Optional) For alienfx-cli and alienfx-probe high-level support, both of my emulated (see above) or Alienware LightFX DLLs should be installed on your computer. These are automatically installed with Alienware Command Center and should be picked up by this program. You also should enable Alienfx API into AWCC to utilize high-level access: Settings-Misc at Metro version (new), right button context menu then "Allow 3rd-party applications" in older Desktop version.
• Unpack the archive to any directory of your choise or just run installer.
• After installation, run alienfx-gui or alienfx-probe to check and set light names (all apps will have limited to no functionality without this step).

Run any tool you need from this folder or start menu!

Light control: Virtually any Alienware/Dell G-series notebook and desktop, some Alienware mouses. Monitor support in progress.
Fan control: Modern Alienware/Dell G-Series notebooks (any m-series, x-series, Area51m), Aurora R7 desktop and later models, some older notebooks (13R2 and compatible).

Project Wiki have more details and the list of tested devices.
If your device not supported, you can help me to support it.
For fan control - Send me ACPI dump from RW Everything for analysis.

• Hardware light effects breathing, spectrum, rainbow doesn't supported for older (APIv1-v3) and per-key RGB (APIv5) devices.
• Hardware light effects (and global effect) didn't work with software effects at the same time for APIv4-v5 (hardware bug, "Update" command stop all effects). Disable monitoring in alienfx-gui to use it.
• DirectX12 games didn't allow to access GPU or frame, so Ambient effect will not work, and alienfx-gui can't handle GPU load for it correctly.
• Using hardware power button, especially for events, can provide hardware light system acting slow right after color update! alienfx-gui will switch to "Devices" tab or quit with visible delay.
• WARNING! Strongly recommended to stop AWCCService if you plan to use alienfx-gui application with "Power Button"-related features. Keep it working can provide unexpected results up to light system freeze (for APIv4).
• WARNING! There are well-known bug in DirectX at the Hybrid graphics (Intel+Nvidia) notebooks, which can prevent Ambient effect from capture screen. If you have only one screen (notebook panel) connected, but set Nvidia as a "Preferred GPU" in Nvidia panel, please add alienfx-ambient with "integrated GPU" setting at "Program settings" into the same panel. It will not work at default setting in this case.
• WARNING! In rare case light system freeze, shutdown or hibernate you notebook (some lights can stay on after shutdown), disconnect power adapter and wait about 15 seconds (or until all lights turn off), then start it back.

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Pre-requisites:

• Visual Studio Community 2019
• Misrosoft DDK v10.0 or higher

Build process:

• Clone repository
• Open solution into you Visual Studio, build.

• New events
  • Input locale
  • Missed notifications (toasts)
  • Keyboard events (f.e pressed ALT, CTRL, SHIFT, Fn will change scheme)
• New devices support
  • Monitors
  • Mouses
  • Keyboards
• Keyboard mapper for easy RGB keyboard setup
• Full-scale power button effects (same as common effects)
• Windows 11 support

• Visual Studio Community 2019

MIT. You can use these tools for any non-commercial or commercial use, modify it any way - supposing you provide a link to this page from you product page and mention me as the one of authors.

Functionality idea and code, new devices support, haptic and ambient algorithms by T-Troll.
Low-level SDK based on Gurjot95's AlienFX_SDK.
High-level API code and cli app is based on Kalbert312's alienfx-cli.
Spectrum Analyzer is based on Tnbuig's Spectrum-Analyzer-15.6.11.
FFT subroutine utilizes Kiss FFT library.
DXGi Screen capture based on Bryal's DXGCap example.
ACPI driver based on kdshk's WindowsHwAccess.
Kernel loading hack based on hfiref0x's KDU

Special thanks to DavidLapous for inspiration and advices!
Special thanks to theotherJohnC for Performance Boost idea!
Per-Key RGB devices testing and a lot of support by rirozizo.
Aurora R7 testing by Raoul Duke.
Support for mouse and a lot of testing by Billybobertjoe
Special thanks to PhSMu for ideas, Dell G-series testing and artwork.