DCOM server process launcher high cpu

[britechguy]

Windows 10 and 11 both have digital licenses tied to the Microsoft Account you're using in conjunction with the specific piece of hardware on which it was installed. In any situation where you had a licensed and activated copy on a machine, that's what you get again when you do a completely clean reinstall. You're generally not even asked to enter a product key, but if you are, skip that because the installer will find the license on Microsoft's server's anyway.

The "Some settings are managed by your organization" can be the result of any of a number of things, and it is most likely the direct result of using a Microsoft Account that is linked to Microsoft Windows Educational in order to use the Office 365 apps.

My recommendation to you is that for the purposes of reinstalling Windows 10, and potentially upgrading to Windows 11, that you use your PERSONAL Microsoft Account for that part of the process. If you cannot use the Office Suite without having a Windows 10 account linked to a different Microsoft Account, then set that up afterward and you can still use that account as your "daily driver." But I'll bet that you can use Microsoft 365 with your personal account provided you log in to Microsoft 365 using the actual educational account it's associated with.

You cannot do a completely clean reinstall with the ISO file alone. You must either burn it to bootable media, see: Doing a Completely Clean (Re)install of Windows 10 Using Media Creation Tool to Fetch the Win10 ISO File, or must create bootable media directly using the Media Creation Tool. That's detailed in the prior instructions I gave. If you have a fresh (as in less than 1 month old) ISO then I'd just look at the instructions for using Rufus to burn it to USB thumb drive if you're comfortable with that. If not, then just use the Media Creation Tool to download it and burn it directly to the USB drive.

Your having changed your system drive from HDD to SSD has no impact whatsoever on Windows licensing or activation.

 

[hotpotato]

I will just do a clean reinstall then.

That's some great help from you! Thank you very much !

 

[britechguy]

You're quite welcome.

 

[Mourad Romadi]

Hello;

I have the same problem on several computers. I don't think it is a virus but I believe it is a bug in the windows update services which it can no longer start too.
I am a computer engineer and I manage a lot of computers, even some ones that are on another site have the same issue.
Moreover Office 365 doesn't work too. All apps closes a few seconds after they start up. Firefox too, but Edge works fine.
All solutions described above didn't work for me. Re-installation of Windows is not envisaged as I have a lot of computers with this problem.
I share my experience with you to make this severe problem be more known of, because I have spent 4 days now searching for a solution on the internet but it seems
that it is not talked about as it supposed to be.
I have checked the system events and I found that the Dcomlauncher waits too long for a response from windows update services then it saves an error entry
To check for an update from Microsoft, the windows update service is itself not working.
Stopping the Dcomlauncher service host process ends in the BSD blue screen of death
Suspending that process in resources monitor returns the CPU usage to normal, but no application can be launched and this make the PC useless.
If any one has access to Microsoft support can reach to them to help in finding a solution, it would be grateful.

Looking forward to hear some good news.

 

[Mostarac]

Mourad Romadi i have also problems with windows update services that they stop working on all my PCs when i turn them automaticaly after reboot they go to manual and stop i chated with Microsoft Technician and he suggested me to change hdd i buyed new SSD but same problems with services i think that this is definitly someting on their side with latest 21H2 isos cause on older versions i didnt had any of these problems.​

I trayed everthing from clean windows installation to repair upgrade with same results.
And on my brothers PC who have 21H1 he dont have these problems with services.

 

[DR M]

Mourad Romadi and Mostarac, if you have any problem regarding your computers, please open a new topic at the appropriate forum. Replying to an old topic usually doesn't get attention by others. So, if you have issues, please open a new topic describing exactly what the problem is.