Flash Player 9 removes dcom entries

OS - Win2000 Pro SP4
After installing Flash Player 9, at least 2 entries under the
application tab of dcom are missing. Theses 2 entries are for a 3rd
party application. I uninstall flash player, and they instantly
come back. Anyone have any ideas?

There is a Adobe tn_15511 which describes fixing registry
access rights.
Similar to you, my problem was that my Win2k Dcomcnfg stopped
displaying all applications in its list. Using the sysinternals
procmon.exe I monitored a dcomcnfg.exe launch and saw an access
denied reading the registry at the flash update util
(flashutil9f.exe) at clsid {D4304BCF-B8E9....} and this caused the
dcomcnfg to prematurely terminate its list generation of
applications. I.E not all apps were shown in the list (hence like
yours perhaps, some were missing?)
When I uninstalled the flash player, all my apps with GUID
values alphabetically after the "unaccessable " flash update one,
magically reappeared in dcom's list.
I note that Win XP's Dcomcnfg does not seem to suffer a
premature halt on this kind of error so I guess its not so
noticeable on the modern O/S
The fix would be to remove the flashupdate or fix its
registry acl permission as per the TechNote.
Hope this maybe helps you understand what the affect is that
you are seeing, it certainly fails on all my win2k boxes with flash
installed on.
Keith

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