# EnableDCOM

The EnableDCOM controls the global activation policies of the machine. Only machine administrators and the system have full-access to this portion of the registry. All other users have only read-access.

Registry Entry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE\
EnableDCOM = value

Remarks

This named-value is a REG_SZ, and has two possible values.

N (or n)
  No remote clients may launch servers or connect to objects on this machine. Local launching of class code and connecting to objects is allowed on a per-class basis according to the value and access permissions of the class’s AppID\{…}\LaunchPermission key and the global DefaultLaunchPermission key. See the description of these keys, below.
Y (or y)
  Launching of servers and connecting to objects by remote clients is allowed on a per-class basis according to the value and access permissions of the class’s LaunchPermission named-value and the global DefaultLaunchPermission named-value.

See Also

LaunchPermission, DefaultLaunchPermission, Security in COM