Dcom error in event viewer after april update

every time i restart my machine after the april update in event viewer itake this error:



Can not start the DCOM server: {995C996E-D918-4A8C-A302-45719A6F4EA7} as Unavailable / Unavailable. The error:
"298"
happened at the start of this command:
C: \ WINDOWS \ System32 \ rundll32.exe C: \ WINDOWS \ System32 \ shell32.dll, SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {995C996E-D918-4a8c-A302-45719A6F4EA7} -Embedding


Anyone has a clue hot to fix it?

boombastik said:

every time i restart my machine after the april update in event viewer itake this error:



Can not start the DCOM server: {995C996E-D918-4A8C-A302-45719A6F4EA7} as Unavailable / Unavailable. The error:
"298"
happened at the start of this command:
C: \ WINDOWS \ System32 \ rundll32.exe C: \ WINDOWS \ System32 \ shell32.dll, SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {995C996E-D918-4a8c-A302-45719A6F4EA7} -Embedding


Anyone has a clue hot to fix it?

Exactly the same error here:

Code:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date:          10/05/2018 20:36:13
Event ID:      10001
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      NAME
Description:
Unable to start a DCOM Server: {995C996E-D918-4A8C-A302-45719A6F4EA7} as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"298"
Happened while starting this command:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {995C996E-D918-4a8c-A302-45719A6F4EA7} -Embedding
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM" Guid="{1B562E86-B7AA-4131-BADC-B6F3A001407E}" EventSourceName="DCOM" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">10001</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8080000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-05-10T19:36:13.551253400Z" />
    <EventRecordID>2409</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="1000" ThreadID="588" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>NAME</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="param1">C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {995C996E-D918-4a8c-A302-45719A6F4EA7} -Embedding</Data>
    <Data Name="param2">298</Data>
    <Data Name="param3">{995C996E-D918-4A8C-A302-45719A6F4EA7}</Data>
    <Data Name="param4">Unavailable</Data>
    <Data Name="param5">Unavailable</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Same event logged in my PC

Unable to start a DCOM Server: {995C996E-D918-4A8C-A302-45719A6F4EA7} as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"298"
Happened while starting this command:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\shell32.dll,SHCreateLocalServerRunDll {995C996E-D918-4a8c-A302-45719A6F4EA7} -Embedding

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm seeing a similar event relating to Cortana.
FWIW "Error 298" appears to be "Too many posts were made to a semaphore".
I have no idea what that actually means!

What I'm actually seeing on most (but not all) boots is -

Unable to start a DCOM Server: Microsoft.Windows.Cortana_1.10.7.17134_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy!CortanaUI.AppXs99ny7m73wgcae47q mfazn1gg5djgt35.mca as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"298"
Happened while starting this command:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\backgroundTaskHost.exe" -ServerName:CortanaUI.AppXy7vb4pc2dr3kc93kfc509b1d0arkfb2x.mca

This is usually followed immediately by up to 10 (!) similar error messages quoting error "0".
According to my research, error "0" means "The operation completed successfully"!
Why that is considered to be an error is anyone's guess!

But still as an error, which makes no sense at all!

we dont have error 10016. so its not the case.