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-This is amazing. Started as a small project just for myself, it now has > 10,000 lines of code, > 450 versions published, up to 4 mio downloads per month, > 50 mio downloads overall. #1 NPM ranking for backend packages. Thank you to all who contributed to this project!
+This is amazing. Started as a small project just for myself, it now has > 15,000 lines of code, > 500 versions published, up to 4 mio downloads per month, > 60 mio downloads overall. #1 NPM ranking for backend packages. Thank you to all who contributed to this project!
 
 ## New Version 5.0
 
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 To be able to detect S.M.A.R.T. status on Linux you need to install `smartmontools`. On DEBIAN based Linux distributions you can install it by running `sudo apt-get install smartmontools`
 
+#### Windows Encoding Issues
+I now reimplemented all windows functions to avoid encoding problems (special chacarters). And as Windows 11 now droppend `wmic` support, I had to move completely to `powershell`. Be sure that powershell version 5+ is installed on your machine. On older Windows versions (7, 8) you might still see encoding problems due to the old powershell version.
 ## *: Additional Notes
 
 In `fsStats()`, `disksIO()` and `networkStats()` the results / sec. values (rx_sec, IOPS, ...) are calculated correctly beginning
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                 <h4>Empty / incorrect values</h4>
                 <p>If you discover empty or incorrect values, please keep in mind that some underlying commands need to be run under admin privileges. So if you run your scripts as normal users, not all system information values can be determined. For linux this is e.g. the case for `memLayout()`, advances `system()`, `bios()`, `baseboard()`, `cpu()`information, S.M.A.R.T. status and others... </p>
 
+                <h4>Encoding issues - Windows</h4>
+                <p>I now reimplemented all windows functions to avoid encoding problems (special chacarters). And as Windows 11 also droppend <span class="code">wmic</span> support, I had to move completely to <span class="code">powershell</span>. Be sure that powershell version 5+ is installed on your machine. On older Windows versions (7, 8) you might still see encoding problems due to the old powershell version.</p>
+
                 <h4>Finding New Issues</h4>
                 <p>If you still have problems, please feel free to open an issue on our <a href="https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation/issues">github page</a></p>
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