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It is almost inevitable you will run into the event viewer error 10016.  This is a common error logged by Windows in the event viewer because an application attempts to access DCOM components without the required permissions.  The error will happen with any type of application, including games and drivers.  Here is what you will notice in the event viewer under the application section.

Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Event ID:      10016
Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID

Fix:

I have seen many “solutions” on the web for this error.  I want to point out that Microsoft recommends you simply ignore these errors.  The applications are programmed to try different parameters through several attempts.  Specific ways can succeed and are preferred, that is why it attempts them first and may fail back to another parameter.  Keep this in mind that most likely nothing is broken, it is designed to run this way.

Microsoft does not recommend that you edit the registry or DCOM permissions to suppress this error, doing so can have unintended side effects.