I just downloaded Speccy version 1.09.231 yesterday and I haven't been able to get it to work correctly.
I have Windows Vista Ultimate x64, I keep it up-to-date, and I'm a fully privileged administrator on the system. I disabled the User Account Control a long time ago, so I don't think the UAC is preventing anything. I also have Comodo Internet Security Pro (64 bit, of course). I usually run only the antivirus, defense+, and firewall modules. The sandbox isn't too useful for me. I'll admit, I am a tweaker, so in the past 4 months, I have customized some registry entries, disabled and modified some scheduled tasks and services, along with auto-run entries. I was getting some Perflib (EmdCache, Spooler, PNRPsvc) error events, so I enabled everything that I thought would be related to performance libraries and counters that I may have disabled in the past. I even enabled RAC, and I've been letting it eat away my CPU resources every hour ._.'
As shown, every time I run Speccy, I will get an orange notice under several sections, "Cannot initialise SPC dll" (without quotes). So I would think there would be an event log complaining that something could not initialize SPC.dll, but nope! In the Windows event log, I get an error 3 times, each a few seconds after the other:
The event log itself has the following details:
The event data has two parameters. This doesn't really explain a lot to me (at least not WHY access to the cpuz135 service is denied).
I read something on these forums last night about HIPS possibly interfering, so I went as far as completely disabling all forms of protection (Heuristics scanning, antivirus, firewall, detection of shellcode injection, execution control, as well as all the monitoring modules. No luck... Even after a reboot.
I cannot find any documentation on this, so I'm looking for help from anyone who has been in a similar situation or from a Speccy developer. PC Wizard functions properly, but I want to use Speccy and I just can't figure this out
