Winlogbeat does not start

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Hey All,
I can't seem to start winlogbeat from c:\programdata\winlogbeat. It does not work on programfiles either so following a post here i tried it in programdata and still the same.

any help would be appreciated.

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error when starting

PS C:\ProgramData\Winlogbeat> Start-Service winlogbeat
Start-Service : Service 'winlogbeat (winlogbeat)' cannot be started due to the following error: Cannot start service winlogbeat on computer '.'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-Service winlogbeat
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service], ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotStartService,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand
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