# Having trouble running Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-elasticsearch/102151>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-elasticsearch/102151 "2017-09-28T17:12:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brendinho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Brendinho](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brendinho)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-elasticsearch/102151/1 "2017-09-28T17:12:19Z")

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Mostly just trying to run Elasticsearch and Kibana on my PC at first to test before potentially implementing to larger environment. Want to get the dashboard up and running. (So any advice if I should be doing something different would be fine as well)

I used the .msi installer and the application install completed successfully. I have messed around with getting the Java\_Home system variable accurate. I think it's correct - Java\_Home = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\_131

The Service shows up as 'Stopped' and when I attempt to run I get "Operation could not be completed: Acess is denied"

I am using the Administrator account on my PC.

OS: Windows 7 x64

Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-trouble-running-elasticsearch/102151/2 "2017-10-26T17:12:57Z")

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Closed on October 26, 2017, 5:12pm UTC

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