by hate dcom » Mon 12:00 pm I disabled dcom like many others and was riddles with errors in event viewer of dcom trying to start but it The event can be ignored if it occurred when Windows 2000 was started in Active Directory Restore mode or some other form of Safe Mode. And if you did an in-place upgrade repair, all restore points would have been deleted.
However, using restore points is well known to be hit and miss- but no harm will be done by trying. If you were lucky, and have System Restore enabled, you could try using a restore point created before you used the registry cleaner.
' Happened while starting this command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe -secured -Embedding I get the following error: Unable to start a DCOM Server.