How can I read my hard drive’s SMART status in Windows 7?

How can I read my hard drive’s SMART status in Windows 7? How can I read the S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7, either automatically or manually?
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bert [Entry]

"HDTune works on Windows 7 too.

A blog-post reference."

bert [Entry]

"GSmartControl

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

Free open source cross platform GUI for smartmontools."

bert [Entry]

"CrystalDiskInfo
is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.

Supports a part of external USB disks
Monitoring health status and temperature
Alert Mail
Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information
Control AAM/APM settings

and more ...

MIT license, also available as a portable w/o ads zip."

bert [Entry]

HD Sentinel! Best ever, bar none!

bert [Entry]

"PassMark DiskCheckup is free for personal use. Known issues of V3.0 (Build 1003):

Hardware RAID and SCSI are not supported. But dynamic disks (software RAID) are supported.
The Silicon Image SIL0680 Ultra-133 ATA RAID Controller has a bug which can cause a system lockup when the SMART data is accessed.. This bug exists in the current driver version, 1.0.1.7 and presumably in previous versions.
TEC predictions about future failure dates should be taken as a guide only and should not be considered accurate.
The majority of newer drives connected via USB and Firewire are supported. However, older drives may not be supported due to the protocol bridge on the hard disk not supporting SMART commands)"