I\'ve installed RabbitMQ 3.5.5 on Windows Server 2012 as a service by first installing Erlang (32 bit) and then following the RabbitMQ manual install instructions (https://w
This a typo.
Are you sure that you don't have .erlang.cookie inside c:\windows . Have you copied the file as described here?
.erlang.cookie
c:\windows
Copy the file .erlang.cookie manually from %SystemRoot% to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%.