Error - Event ID: 10016; DistributedCOM

Anonymous
2013-10-20T20:30:29+00:00

I am getting this error repeatedly since I updated from Windows 8 to 8.1. It occurs once every time the PC is booted, about 2 minutes after it boots up.

Can you please help me to fix it?

Log Name:      System

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM

Date:          10/20/2013 3:19:04 PM

Event ID:      10016

Task Category: None

Level:         Error

Keywords:      Classic

User:          LOCAL SERVICE

Computer:     

Description:

The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

{C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}

 and APPID

{316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}

 to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

The APPID {316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97} is for a COM application called "Immersive Shell". I cannot use the Component Services administrative tool to edit the security permissions because every setting is "grayed-out".

I tried running in Safe Mode and was still unable to modify any of the Immersive Shell settings.

The PC has no software installed except for the latest Intel drivers. I performed a clean installation of Windows 8, installed chipset, VGA, Intel Rapid Storage Tech, LAN, and Intel Management Engine drivers. Then I updated to 8.1 through the Store app. The errors began immediately after that update.

The PC has an ASUS Z87 motherboard, 16 Gb of DDR3-1866 ram, Intel i7-4770k cpu. It is not overclocked but memory is in XMP mode at frequency 1866. The system drive is an SSD.

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Anonymous
2013-10-24T18:39:39+00:00

In system event viewer, I started getting error Event ID: 10016 after upgrading to Win8.1 on October 17, 2013.  The system event viewer on my Dell XPS One 2710 was error free prior to upgrading from Win8 to Win8.1.

The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239} and APPID

{316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}  to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

For me, the solution was provided by Greg310 in Dulwichdik's link as follows:

  1. Open Regedit
  2. Go to HKEY_Classes_Root\CLSID{C2F03A33-21F5-47FA-B4BB-156362A2F239}
  3. Right click on it then select permissions
  4. Click Advance and change the owner to Administrators group. Also click the box that will appear below the owner line. ("Replace owner ...")
  5. Apply full control
  6. Go to HKEY_LocalMachine\Software\Classes\AppID{316CDED5-E4AE-4B15-9113-7055D84DCC97}
  7. Right click on it then select permission
  8. Click Advance and change the owner to Administrators group
  9. Click the box that will appear below the owner line
  10. Click Apply and grant full control to the Administrators group
  11. Go to Administrative tools
  12. Open component services
  13. Click Computer, click my computer, then click DCOM
  14. Look for the corresponding service that appears on the error viewer [Immersive Shell]
  15. Right click on it then click properties
  16. Click security tab then click Add User. Add Local Service then apply
  17. Tick the Activate local box

Thank you Daniel MoisesMagulado and Greg310 for addressing the problem and providing the solution!

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-02T06:21:11+00:00

    I tried this and got stopped at the first chunk. I tried to give admins full access but the computer itself denied my access to make that change. Any way around this?

    I misunderstood your steps and figured it out but now im still confused. Where is the  corresponding service that appears on the error viewer [Immersive Shell]

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-30T19:04:33+00:00

    This does NOT work in all circumstances for people getting Access Denied errors, they need to use the true admin account to make these changes.

    Furthermore, DCOM errors can resurface with different CLSID's or APPID's

    In my case I had a new APPID which was associated with about 10 different CLSID's.

    The process for resolving is the same, if you get access denied use the true admin account.

    AND DO NOT use the APPID's or CLSID's given in all of these guides as they may be different from PC to PC.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-08T04:42:35+00:00

    **-** <Eventxmlns="**http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event**">

    **-** <System>

    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM"Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}"EventSourceName="DCOM" />

    <EventID Qualifiers="0">10016</EventID>

    <Version>0</Version>

    <Level>2</Level>

    <Task>0</Task>

    <Opcode>0</Opcode>

    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>

    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2017-10-08T03:10:48.697422300Z" />

    <EventRecordID>2567</EventRecordID>

    <Correlation />

    <Execution ProcessID="516"ThreadID="1052" />

    <Channel>System</Channel>

    <Computer>DESKTOP-D71S02L</Computer>

    <Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />

    </System>

    **-** <EventData>

    <Data Name="param1">właściwe dla aplikacji</Data>

    <Data Name="param2">Lokalny</Data>

    <Data Name="param3">Aktywacja</Data>

    <Data Name="param4">{6B3B8D23-FA8D-40B9-8DBD-B950333E2C52}</Data>

    <Data Name="param5">{4839DDB7-58C2-48F5-8283-E1D1807D0D7D}</Data>

    <Data Name="param6">ZARZĄDZANIE NT</Data>

    <Data Name="param7">USŁUGA LOKALNA</Data>

    <Data Name="param8">S-1-5-19</Data>

    <Data Name="param9">LocalHost (użycie LRPC)</Data>

    <Data Name="param10">Niedostępny</Data>

    <Data Name="param11">Niedostępny</Data>

    </EventData>

    </Event>

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-03-19T08:26:46+00:00

    Hello.

    What about windows 10.

    i got the same message.

    I already reinstall windows, after several automatic reboots, etc..

    Should we apply same method, because, i am getting the same message.

    I don't know why Microsoft didn't make fix for this kind of really serious problem.

    The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

    {D63B10C5-BB46-4990-A94F-E40B9D520160}

    and APPID

    {9CA88EE3-ACB7-47C8-AFC4-AB702511C276}

    to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

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