I just loaded Speccy 1.05.183 and when I ran it I got the C++ runtime error. Installing "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)" did not help. Using the excellent instructions above by "Nergal" to run in /debug mode, I quickly determined that Speccy was stumbling on the "Hard Drives" step. This computer has 2 physical hard drives. The primary drive is 150GB and has 2 partitions. The secondary drive is only 6GB has 1 partition. I have had problems in the past with this second drive; I previously had to disable the service that checks on drive health. Can't even remember how I did that now. I suspect that this drive is dying. I use it only for temporary files. This drive is a Western Digital WDC AC36400L. I need to open the computer and physically pull the drive out and toss it!
To make a long story short, for now I went into Device Manager and disabled drive #2. Now, Speccy runs just fine with no C++ runtime error.
I have attached the 3 log files that were created in /debug mode. The dump file is huge; 53.4MB and will not fit within the 1.95MB max file size.
Speccy_log1_05_18326-9-2010_1-14.txt
Speccy_log1_05_18326-9-2010_1-18.txt
Speccy_log1_05_18326-9-2010_1-27.txt
