# Not able to start the Elasticsearch windows service in windows server 2016

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch-windows-service-in-windows-server-2016/354304>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [February 28, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch-windows-service-in-windows-server-2016/354304 "2024-02-28T07:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![RSaha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RSaha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RSaha)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch-windows-service-in-windows-server-2016/354304/1 "2024-02-28T07:22:08Z")

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Hi,  
We are using Elasticsearch 8.4. but when we tried to run the services we are getting the error. access denied. Can you please look into that and help us to fix the issue.

 ![Elasticsearch_service_not able to start](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/1/f19373b1226dcf95b29ccc83241d9fdbdec616ea.png)

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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:** [March 27, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/not-able-to-start-the-elasticsearch-windows-service-in-windows-server-2016/354304/2 "2024-03-27T07:22:51Z")

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