# I can't start windows service in Windows 10

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** winlogbeat\
**Created:** [September 7, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700 "2018-09-07T11:04:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![cdra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@cdra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cdra)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 11:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700/1 "2018-09-07T11:04:48Z")

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I can't start windows service in Windows 10. Errors are:

EventLog[Application] Open() error. No events will be read from this source.  
EventLog[Security] Open() error. No events will be read from this source.  
EventLog[System] Open() error. No events will be read from this source.

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700/2 "2018-09-07T11:42:33Z")

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This is interesting. At the end of each line you've pasted here supposed to be a concrete error message.

Could you share the debug logs of Winlogbeat (`./winlogbeat -e -d "*"`)?

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**Author:** ![cdra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@cdra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cdra)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700/3 "2018-09-07T12:58:12Z")

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I have rebooted the computer and now it Works...

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**Author:** ![kvch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kvch/32/72058_2.png) [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700/4 "2018-09-07T13:00:25Z")

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Everything can be fixed on Windows by rebooting it... 😄

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**Author:** ![popa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@popa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/popa)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700/6 "2018-09-12T01:42:32Z")

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> [@kvch](#):
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> Everything can be fixed on Windows by rebooting it... 😄

This is 100% correct.

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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 10, 2018, 1:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-start-windows-service-in-windows-10/147700/7 "2018-10-10T01:42:33Z")

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