Canfield Research Group LLC

The following error was repeated many times in a client’s event log:

• The COM+ Event System attempted to fire the EventObjectChange::ChangedSubscription event but received a bad return code. HRESULT was 80040201.

After some research the solution was:

• Delete the following registry key: _HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\COM3_
• Delete all the directory and all files in: C:\WINDOWS\Registration
• If you cannot delete a file use , browse to the file/directory that could not be deleted and select the option to delete on next boot. Reboot.
• Control Panel / Add Remove Programs / Add/Remove Windows Components.
• Next (no changes to default options are needed)
• COM code will be re-installed. I did not need my Windows XP CD for this.
• Reboot

• WARNING You may need to re-register some DLLs, namely IIS. I do not use IIS so you will need to search for solutions via the net (Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, etc.).

I have not yet determined what caused the COM+ database to be scrambled. No virus or spyware was found.