Thursday, June 16, 2011

Failed to open service control manager

This error occurs when an application tries to create a new service in you machine.
This would be probably because you have logged in as a user who do not have administrator rights.

It is easy to fix the issue..
Either login as administrator or run the application as administrator(windows 7: right click > run as admistrator).

You can see all the services in
  • Control Panel > Administrative Tools > services.

If the application fails to start the service automatically you can start it manually also..


Let me know if it was helpful.
Enjoy coding!