SpeedFan issue

Hy guys,
I'm not sure i posted in the right place, but here it goes: i have a issue with speedfan 4.47. Ever since i installed comodo firewall i noticed that at a certain interval (about a week) speedfan tries to connect to some ip address (77.232.217.107), which i dont want it to do.
If i dont let speedfan connect the following things happed: it will not let me minimize the window, it does not display any information in the windows right of the Readings window (meaning Clock, Info, etc, see picture). Also the options to control the fans from the Readings window is blank (also picture). Everything else is ok. No change if i reinstall or restart speedfan. I I looked through the options of speedfan and i could not find any update settings. I have winxp and win7 installed and it does the same thing on boths os.
I have found only one solution (other then let it connect), that is to restore the speedfan window and then minimize it, but i would have to do this each time i start my pc (since speedfan is set to open at startup minimized). I think that the update is keeping part of the window vizible, and will not let me minimize it, since it thinks that it is allready minimized, and even though some options are not vizible it does not have any effect on the functionality of speedfan.