How to fix components list being empty?

[adriancalavie]

So, I followed the docs, and my components list is empty. Why might that be? I'm on windows btw.

Code

use sysinfo::{Components, System};

fn main() {
    let mut sys = System::new_all();
    sys.refresh_all();

    // Components:
    let components = Components::new_with_refreshed_list();
    println!("{:?}", components.list());
}

Output

[GuillaumeGomez]

It requires to be admin on Windows to have a chance to retrieve this information. But to be clear: on Windows, the Components API doesn't work really well because of the OS limitation (in short, every component needs to have a specific code to handle it, which is basically impossible).

[adriancalavie]

Okay, that makes sense. I've just checked to see how neofetch-win does it and it seems it gets the component's name from the registry. While that works, all you get is a name, no other infos.