Question

I have created a windows service with Automatic Start Type and install it in my system successfully but it does not start until i restart my system.
Details: yesterday i have create and install my service and then restart my windows so the service started successfully. but the problem occurred today when i boot my windows and opened the services list of windows from Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services and selected my service i saw that it did not start automatically.
what is my mistake?

Answer 1

Assuming the service is set to ‘Automatic’ as the startup mode, and that it’s state is not ‘Started’, then there will be at least one message about why the service did not start in the System Event Log.

Typical reasons are that the service didn’t start quickly enough (Service Controller imposes a time limit on how quickly services must respond to the ‘Start’ message) or that the service depended on another service which wasn’t yet available (check your service dependencies) or that your service simply failed due to a software error (e.g. some resource it needs could not be found).

Find the error in the event log, and you’ll have a much better idea of why your service hasn’t started.