New Windows Service installed, fails to start: “System error 2 … system cannot find the file specified”

Question

I have installed several other custom .Net windows services successfully. A new one I had recently written was very similar to the others and while it installed without error -

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with a service, where I was getting the same error.

I went to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\YourServiceName\ImagePath

My 'ImagePath' was set to a virtual drive called "W:\" that exists on "C:\".
I replaced this path with the actual file location on the C:\ drive and then the service started successfully