[SOLVED] "Event 10016, DistributedCOM" warnings appearing every single second in Event Viewer ?

[TigerTek]

Is this something I should worry about?

https://imgur.com/d5et8Rj

View: https://imgur.com/d5et8Rj


And could it possibly be slowing down my computer??

 

[Colif]

DCOM events are related a Database used by windows itself.

These 10016 events are recorded when Microsoft components try to access DCOM components without the required permissions. In this case, this behavior is expected and by design.

A coding pattern has been implemented where the code first tries to access the DCOM components with one set of parameters. If the first attempt is unsuccessful, it tries again with another set of parameters. The reason why it doesn't skip the first attempt is because there are scenarios where it can succeed. In those scenarios, it's preferable.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...gement/event-10016-logged-when-accessing-dcom

Almost every PC on earth gets DCOM events, most can be ignored.

why are you looking in event viewer? is the PC slow or you just looking?

most of the events in there can be ignored, MIcrosoft actually reduced a lot of them from error to warning as scammers would show event viewer to users and tell them their system is broken when really there is no problem at all.

 

[TigerTek]

DCOM events are related a Database used by windows itself.



https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...gement/event-10016-logged-when-accessing-dcom

Almost every PC on earth gets DCOM events, most can be ignored.

why are you looking in event viewer? is the PC slow or you just looking?

most of the events in there can be ignored, MIcrosoft actually reduced a lot of them from error to warning as scammers would show event viewer to users and tell them their system is broken when really there is no problem at all.

I know these errors are quite common, but lately my PC has been acting up in various ways, for example sometimes when I turn it on I get graphical glitches on both my monitors, then they both go black and nothing can be done except restarting it from the case button. Or at times when I play certain games, after 30 mins or so of playtime, my cpu goes from a constant 40% all the way up to 100% and my whole pc starts freezing for 20 seconds at a time until I finally manage to restart the game and then all is normal.

The reason I'm so worried and looking there in the first place was because I was helping out my friend who was getting blue screen crashes quite a lot this week, and she looked in her event viewer to check what the cause of the error was and saw there were quite a bit of them. I then checked mine and discovered I was getting spammed the same error every second, and there are so many of them that I can't even scroll down to see the previous 5 hours of logs. I wasn't sure if this was normal so I asked another friend of mine to check his event viewer and he, like the first friend, had errors every 5-10 minutes or so... not so much every single second like in my case. So now I'm questioning if these errors that are happening every second are having an effect on my PC in any way at all??

 

[Colif]

event viewer is not an ideal place to look to solve BSOD. I help people fix them here and I rarely look in there at all. There are better ways.

Ask your friend to follow option one on the following link - here - and then do this step below: Small memory dumps - Have Windows Create a Small Memory Dump (Minidump) on BSOD - that creates a file in c windows/minidump after the next BSOD

1. Open Windows File Explore
2. Navigate to C:\Windows\Minidump
3. Copy the mini-dump files out onto your Desktop
4. Do not use Winzip, use the built in facility in Windows
5. Select those files on your Desktop, right click them and choose 'Send to' - Compressed (zipped) folder
6. Upload the zip file to the Cloud (OneDrive, DropBox . . . etc.)
7. Then post a link here to the zip file, so we can take a look for you . . .

make a post here about it and we help figure it out.

I would run DDU in safe mode on your PC and see if replacing drivers fixes the black screen thing - https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq...n-install-of-your-video-card-drivers.2402269/

this shows how to fix the event but it also says its unlikely to be cause of any problems on PC - https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fix-distributedcom-error-10016-windows/