"The service cannot be started..." DCOM error

[DBF]

Anyone have an idea what this means and how to resolve it?
Thanks,
Dave

Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10005
Date: 10/16/2003
Time: 6:34:29 AM
User: XXXXXXXXXX
Computer: XXXXXXXXXX
Description:
DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled
or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. " attempting to
start the service MDM with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{0C0A3666-30C9-11D0-8F20-00805F2CD064}

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[noone]

this is relatively benign. It appear you have the Machine Debug Manager
service or startup enabled. Unless you're a programmer you won't need it,
just disable it. Its often installed by Office or a Visual... program
from MS.

For the most part, DCOM errors are not serious, they're mostly just
informational. If the COM component was actually critical to the app then
you'd see other errors/behaviours.

Check in administrative tools | services

and in control panel | startup. look of MDM.EXE, or Machine Debug
Manager Service.

[Don't have CP|Startup: google for it, it's freeware from Mark Lin.
everyone should have it. msconfig will work too, but its gotten too busy
in XP, with a nag screen on every startup; it's intended for only
temporary use. I use Startup Control Panel instead].

 

[noone]

looks like it was trying to USE the MDM and it wasn't installed/running.
again, not a real problem, you can ignore the dcom error.