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what does sc qc MyServiceX show? Especially for the BINARY_PATH_NAME?

How do you know that the service installed fine? Have you checked it with the services program? What does sc query MyServiceX say from the command line? What is the contents of the file mysvcx.log...

Please post the code here that you are actually using.

It would probably be useful if you posted your code so we could see how you are trying to achive and so we could provide better guidance.

Why not? What error is being reported? What is your service doing and what is causing the error?

Yes. What debugging of the program have you done - as this should have been picked up by using the debugger.

Have you checked what GetExeFolderName is actually returning? As you are hardcoding the full path to your testservice.exe, you probably don't need GetExeFolderName at all at the moment whilst you are...

The contents of path. Have you looked at it in the debuuger or shown it on screen to be sure it's what you are expecting as you are concatenating the result of GetExeFolderName() with the TEXT...

What do you expect path to contain after this statement? Have you examined its contents?