Quick Google-fu says that the COM+ Event System service is required for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service. BITS is the download manager for Windows Update, so if your COM+ went on the fritz, you might not have been getting OS updates. It may be that the Firefox and Email tie into this as well, but I don't know for sure.
Service Details here.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI
Service Details here.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."
>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI