windows service

Hi, New here but not new to Windows. I have a software requirement that I am surprised I can't seem to find an answer for. I have written a Windows Service. I have created an installer for this service. This installer (when run as Administrator) creates a new user, provides the user with...

Recently whenever I try to uninstall/install anything on my computer it says "The windows installer service could not be accessed this can occur if the windows installer is not correctly installed". I looked up how to sole this and a few things said to run services.msc and start it there. When I...

I've been having the biggest issues with my computer as of late, and need help fast.. Basically, my audio driver fails to work, and won't play sound. After digging around, I found out it was AVG quarantining files with Realtek drivers. I had AVG, but uninstalled deleting all of the stuff in the...

Hello people, I have had a problem for months now, that sometimes data wouldn't copy or be deleted if they had anything to do with installing before. For example, if a program autoupdates itself and downloads his new .exe, then it might be unable to delete the old one, and the update failed...

Hi all, I have a problem with very annoying pop-up that appears on every system startup. It is titled: "Failed to connect to a windows service" and it's written: "Windows could not connect to the Group Policy Client service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As...

Hey, I brought the game on Steam and was able to play before but I recently reinstalled the game and now I cannot get past the launcher. I get a message box saying assertion failed and something regarding shippingpc-bmgame.exe (see image). I have already tried uninstalling and reinstalling...

Hey all, Occasionally when I start up my HP ProBook 4520s I get an error saying "Failed to connect to a windows service. Windows could not connect to the System Event Notification Service service. This problem prevents standard users from logging on to the system. As an administrative user...

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Hi I had made a simple window service in VS 2010 and try to install it but getting error Access Denied. When I run the command as InstallUtil "Path to Service" then a message box is appear which asked for username and password but after filling that getting error that either no mapping is...

Yes, the title of this post is a palindrome, as a metaphor for the backwards and forwards nature of my problem here. My computer has BSODed every few weeks. And when it restarts, I get told "Problem connecting to the Windows Error Reporting service. Some of the reports could not be uploaded...

My windows installer (v.5.0) seems to be corrupted or something. I can't install or uninstall anything that uses .msi and i can't seem to find any way to fix this. I want to uninstall OpenOffice, but get error that it can't find the .msi file. A search of my computer cannot find it either...

Hello Everybody, Is there any way I can connect to my PPPoE internet before Login. I want it for team viewer. I always use my home pc remotely from office. but if I want to restart or switch user then it get disconnected. Actually teamviewer has option to start it as windows service. So I am...

Sorry for posting this in the wrong thread but I'm not able to find where exactly this would go. Brief outline of my problem; I have created a Windows Service using VS2008 Professional that installs no problem under Windows XP using InstallUtil <service_name.exe> - The same code branch and...

Background: I am a developer. I write Windows software for a living, have done for many years. And this problem has got me flummoxed :( I've written a simple Windows service. It was working just great on Windows XP. So I ported the source code across and recompiled it. No problems experienced...