Sep 12 2003
DCOM/RPC FAQ
Well, it appears that I won’t have to do much research on disabling the DCOM service on Windows; it has already been done by the folks at NT Bug Traq. You can read the FAQ at http://www.ntbugtraq.com/dcomrpc.asp.
Basically, if you are the average user, turning off the service won’t affect you much if at all. There are a few programs that will experience problems and there might be some system oddities, but over all, nothing will break. And the programs that break are very unlikely to be on most computers, even the average server. This from a service that Microsoft said was an intergal part of Windows.