StartService returned error code 2, what could that mean?

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Vadim Ushakov2021-10-10 05:33:43

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Vadim Ushakov, 2021-10-10 05:33:43

StartService (winapi) returned error code 2, what could that mean?

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Vasily Bannikov, 2021-10-10
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If we are talking about this StartService:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cim...
Then code 2 means:

The user did not have the necessary access.

This means there are not enough rights.
If code 2 is received from GetLastError, then this is ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND