COM+ error message when trying to debug an application in Visual Studio 2005

One would expect Visual Studio 2005 to be a bite more 'helpful' with it's error messages. For starters it could tell you where to start looking if you run into a problem but no...just a popup saying "Unable to start debugging on the web server. The COM+ registry database detected a system error." *

Surprisingly even the Microsoft Knowledge base doesn't have anything to say about this issue. Thank God for Google. *bow down*. After an hour of googling I finally took someone's advice and here is what one needs to do resolve this issue with COM+ registry error when trying to debug an application in Visual Studio 2005.

1. Go to Windows Update website and download and install 'Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1'. The link to the website is as follows : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=A8F5654F-088E-40B2-BBDB-A83353618B38
2. Restart the machine and ta daaaaaaaaaaaa...everything works like magic