When I dismount a drive, VeraCrypt hangs the taskbar and after five minutes, the task bar unfreezes, and a notification appears, saying that the volume is dismounted.
Comments: Back to report my latest finds that could be helpful to others. I’ve been trying to get rid of some persistent errors in the Windows’ logs and succeeded with all but 3: * DistributedCOM - EventID 10016 * DistributedCOM - EventID 10010 * Service Control Manager (Connected Devices Platform Service) - EventID 7023 Apparently the first one is easily fixed (see [here](https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/20230-windows-10-event-id-10010-10016-errors-distributedcom.html) – haven’t tried it myself yet). However, I could not find in the forums a clear solution to the other two errors. Today while doing some backups to an external hard disk using the program I’ve mentioned before (SecondCopy) I forgot to connect the drive and obviously there were errors. SecondCopy tried to report through the notification area the 6 failed backups and a very long taskbar lock up did occur. When I checked the error logs there were plenty of 10010 and 7023 events. Then I intentionally ran SecondCopy again at a specific time without the drive being connect and checked the logs: ``` 09/02/2017 10:50:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:52:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:52:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:54:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:54:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:56:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:56:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:58:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:58:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 11:00:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 11:00:27 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 11:02:27 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. ``` There is a pair of 7023/10010 events with a 2 min gap between them for each error message issued. The next obvious thing to do was to enable VeraCrypt notifications and check the error logs: ``` 09/02/2017 13:03:01 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 13:05:01 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. ``` Bingo, the same event pairs related to notifications with an exact 2 min gap. Googling around for the “Connected Devices Platform Service” I’ve came across some suggestions that this service could be disabled without any visible impact on the system (see [here](https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/65664-errors-connected-devices-platform-service-cdp-user-service-cdpusersvc.html)). It's been 5 h since I’ve disabled it and got rid of the notification problems. Error logs clean.
Comments: Back to report my latest finds that could be helpful to others. I’ve been trying to get rid of some persistent errors in the Windows’ logs and succeeded with all but 3: * DistributedCOM - EventID 10016 * DistributedCOM - EventID 10010 * Service Control Manager (Connected Devices Platform Service) - EventID 7023 Apparently the first one is easily fixed (see [here](https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/20230-windows-10-event-id-10010-10016-errors-distributedcom.html) – haven’t tried it myself yet). However, I could not find in the forums a clear solution to the other two errors. Today while doing some backups to an external hard disk using the program I’ve mentioned before (SecondCopy) I forgot to connect the drive and obviously there were errors. SecondCopy tried to report through the notification area the 6 failed backups and a very long taskbar lock up did occur. When I checked the error logs there were plenty of 10010 and 7023 events. Then I intentionally ran SecondCopy again at a specific time without the drive being connect and checked the logs: ``` 09/02/2017 10:50:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:52:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:52:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:54:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:54:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:56:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:56:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 10:58:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 10:58:19 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 11:00:19 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. 09/02/2017 11:00:27 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 11:02:27 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. ``` There is a pair of 7023/10010 events with a 2 min gap between them for each error message issued. The next obvious thing to do was to enable VeraCrypt notifications and check the error logs: ``` 09/02/2017 13:03:01 Service Control Manager 7023 "The Connected Devices Platform Service service terminated with the following error: Unspecified error" 09/02/2017 13:05:01 Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM 10010 The server {37998346-3765-45B1-8C66-AA88CA6B20B8} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout. ``` Bingo, the same event pairs related to notifications with an exact 2 min gap. Googling around for the “Connected Devices Platform Service” I’ve came across some suggestions that this service could be disabled without any visible impact on the system (see [here](https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/65664-errors-connected-devices-platform-service-cdp-user-service-cdpusersvc.html)). It's been 5 h since I’ve disabled it and got rid of the notification problems. Error logs clean.
