System error 5 Access is denied when starting a .NET service

Question

When I try to start a service I created in Visual Studio I receive the following error:

System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.

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Answer 1

To get it to work I needed to add permissions to the output bin\debug folder for my service project.

The Local Service account didn't have permissions to the output .exe file, and this was why the error was occuring.