Cannot initialise SPC dll - Speccy v1.09.231 on Windows Vista

[Kiros]

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 cpuz135 service failed to start due to the following error:

Access is denied.

 

The event log itself has the following details:

Log Name: System

Source: Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider

Event ID: 7000

Username: N/A

OpCode: Info

 

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).

 

param1 cpuz135

param2 %%5

 

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

[lemonade?soda]

I think comodo is blocking this through sandbox. I had the same issue (W2K3) until disabling sandbox, then everything showed up fine. So disable or remove sandbox. If you have played with registry settings, I suggest UNINSTALLING Comodo, and reinstalling, to clear what you have farked.

[Recalibar]

Yeah, I had the same problem but it was isolated to the graphics card. As for fixing the problem, I simply reinstalled the program and it worked fine after that.