Friday, November 17, 2023

Start menu and search not working on Windows

 On windows 2016 server start and search stopped working.

While researched and different issue with KMS not starting on the server, discovered that the computer DCOM object did not have SELF in it.

Added SELF in  component services. Start and search started working.

Open mmc and add component services snapin.

Navigate to Component Services-Computers. Right click My Computer and go to COM Security tab.

Click Edit default in Access permissions. Click ADD and look for SELF in domain.