24. January 2009 by admin.

Now, when I say “pesky annoyance” I mean down right frustrating. Say your thumbnails won’t work on your xbox 360 when viewing items thrown out over media sharing and you’ve got this wonderful errors blasting around your event log:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Event ID:      10016
Description:
The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{AB8902B4-09CA-4BB6-B78D-A8F59079A8D5}
 to the user NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE SID (S-1-5-20) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Now, just think about how tech-savvy you really are. You know what’s up. You’re going to go find out what application this is by finding the AppID in the registry then head over to Component Services and go fix this up, right? You start “dcomcnfg” and you browse over to “Thumbnail Cache Out of Proc Server” and try to modify it… no love. Greyed out options and all you’ve just been denied by your trusty operating system. You know you’re and administrator but behold, you’ve been given the finger by Windows.

No worries.

Someone, somewhere decided that they would make a security consideration here and grant only “Trustedinstaller” full control permission instead of Administrators. How dare they huh? To fix this up, do the following:

    1. Open Registry Editor and browse over to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\AppID\{AB8902B4-09CA-4BB6-B78D-A8F59079A8D5}’
    2. Right click on the {AB8902B4-09CA-4BB6-B78D-A8F59079A8D5} key and choose “Permissions…”
    3. Just as you would a file, take ownership and assign it to ‘Administrators’ then go back and grant ‘Administrators’ the ‘full control’ permission.
    4. Restart dcomcnfg and modify away.

Once you’ve made your modifications and granted Local Activation permissions to NETWORK SERVICE, you should eliminate those errors.

This trick can be applied to ANY CLISD you can’t modify in Component Services DCOM Configuration.

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24. January 2009 by Myke.

This laptop came and went in the Homerun-networks lab.  We played and played and were amazed at the speed and the “geek” factor.  With 2GB of DDR3 memory, NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M 48-core CUDA parallel computing processor 512MB, Ultranav + Fingerprint Reader, Non-RAID HDD, 160 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm, DVD Recordable 8x Max Ultrabay Enhanced (Serial ATA), ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter III and the coolest feature of all…17″ WUXGA 400NIT TFT+10.6″WXGA+ TFT.  The slide out 10.6″WXGA+ TFT screen is so cool that I almost decided to buy it.  The only downfall I have on this laptop is the cost (which I understand but is out of my reach) and the ad I recently saw in which a “Geek” is more interested in the laptop than the lady disrobing in front of him.  I am a geek and love my geek toys and tools but to be quite honest, flesh baring and beautiful women are far more interesting to me.  I tell you what, how about you be the judge of the ad.

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