If your Event Viewer log says DCOM got error "87" attempting to start the service GamingServices, follow the solutions ...

Some users of Windows have been coming face to face with a strange DistributedCOM error 1001 when they open the Event Viewer. Usually, this error pops up when folks ...

DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model) objects are interesting due to the ability to interact with the objects over the network. Microsoft has some good documentation on DCOM here and on COM here.