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General Computer Support / The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) firmware has a known security problem Error

« on: November 18, 2017, 05:54:37 pm »

Windows 10 "Fall Creators Update", build 16299 on HPz840 workstation.  This event showed up after the "Creators Update" and its first patch from Windows Update.

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Event log:
Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-TPM-WMI
Date:          11/18/2017 5:11:01 PM
Event ID:      1794
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      TIGER
Description:
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) firmware on this PC has a known security problem. Please contact your PC manufacturer to find out if an update is available. For more information please go to https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=852572

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I installed the latest BIOS (UEFI) and Intel chip set drivers as well as Intel Management Engine drivers and this event did not go away.  I ran Tweaking.com starting with all the pre-repair steps, booting each time into safe mode.  That SEEMED to cure the problem including a slew of DCOM permission problems (event 10016) that occured during shutdown.  However, it also caused a new DCOM error during startup for two components like this:
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Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Date:          11/18/2017 5:10:03 PM
Event ID:      10016
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          LOCAL SERVICE
Computer:      TIGER
Description:
The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{10DA4F3C-CC99-4190-BE4D-58330754E882}
 and APPID
{7DDEFEA6-98EE-4F13-A25B-EC83D9BC5541}
 to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC) running in the application container Unavailable SID (Unavailable). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
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I ran the "preset: Permissions Only" repair thinking it would clean those errors up.  And it did for those components, but lead to the permissions event for the component as posted above and the TPM error returned.

Any ideas on how to solve these two issues once an for all?

NOTE: Neither HP nor Microsoft websites offer any solutions.

Thanks for any help that can be offered.

NOTE2:  I ponied up for the "Pro" version of Tweaking, so if there is in the Advance Repairs or Tools tab that can help with repair or diagnosis, those options are available to me.

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Feedback & Suggestions / What Have You Done to My Machine?!?!

« on: September 13, 2016, 12:43:17 am »

I ran Tweaking to repair a system which sfc and standard dism, chkdsk etc found no problems with but which kept randomly rebooting of turning off all output to the monitor.  Now, I can't set default programs, (among other settings that I can no longer change either in the new Windows 10 settings or traditional control panel - I click a choice but nothing happens, and my choices are ignored.  It appears you somehow set permissions to all these settings so that I, as Administrator cannot set them.

Further, the advent of a random restarts / black screens comes quicker and in larger number after the so-called "repair".

I'd love to look at the event log, services app, dcomcnfig etc. but attempting to run any of those apps crashes the machine almost immediately.  And yes, I started from step on, and did all the optional steps before repair.  What a wast of 6 hours.

BTW, I tried to restore both the registry and to the restore point I created before I ran this sorry utility, and guess what - THE SYSTEM TELLS ME THERE ARE NO BACKUPS OR RESTORE POINTS TO USE TO GET BACK TO WHERE I WAS BEFORE THIS PIECE OF POOP SCRAMBLED MY OS!!

Thanks!  Now I have no choice but to wipe the HD and start rebuilding from scratch - a process that will likely take two months to complete.