Elasticsearch 7.10 .zip installation, Windows service will not start

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Followed the install steps.
Installed Elastic as a service.

Started service.
Service failed to start
Nothing in the logs folders

Using dedicated service account (not local system)

System error log error 7034
...service terminated unexpectedly

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Solution
d:\Elasticsearch\logs should be populated

Remember to check the other logs
c:\Elasticsearch-7.10.2\logs

...stderr.log
Error: Temporary file directory userx\appdata\local\temp\7\Elasticsearch does not exist or is not accessible

Created the missing folder and the service started

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