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
    2015-12-28T23:03:58+00:00

    Have followed steps as accurately as possible but still receive error. I'm doing this on Win10 and there doesn't seem to be a "activate local box" perhaps this is why I'm not having any success with it?

    Thanks.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-22T06:37:48+00:00

    I've gotten a few of these errors every day since I bought a new HP Windows 10 laptop last November.

    Late on January 14, I started using IE 11 with no extensions to try to solve a problem with IE frequently crashing.

    This is my 10016 error count since then:

    1/14/2016 13
    1/15/2016 164
    1/16/2016 104
    1/17/2016 341
    1/18/2016 450
    1/19/2016 199
    1/20/2016 147
    1/21/2016 259

    I tried following the 17 step instructions listed above, but couldn't get past step 12. Every option was grayed and unresponsive. The search goes on.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-22T09:51:10+00:00

    Sie müssen die *CLSID* und die *APPID* in der Registry suchen die in ihrem eigenen Ereigisprotokoll zu ID-10016 angezeigt werden!  ..und dann die beschrieben Änderungen der Berechtigung durchführen.

    Danach sollte es auch ab Schritt 12 funktionieren. 

    Mit Windows 10 Pro 64Bit hat es bei mir funktioniert!

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-22T14:41:16+00:00

    what i did to get rid of all those errors was to disable DCOM....just google 'disable DCOM' its a fairly straight

    forward option.... it took me several months to get my errors down to four with eight warnings....W10 to me is

    trying to do too much with all those apps and options at present and they don't seem to know how to make

    a vanilla pc run correctly without all that junk

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