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.

I a

Answer 1

Just ran into this issue after I had run an 'sc config' to change binPath of the service.

The only fix that worked for me was to 'sc delete' the service and install again.

Things worked perfectly after that.