Cant profile windows service using local service account

chrisdev

I have to run my service under the local service account or the service crashes because it cannot write to the event log. when I start profiling it starts the service, but the gui still thinks its attempting to start the service and that's where it hangs, at the "starting application..." screen.

ConfigurableThreadPool thread] WARN RedGate.Profiler.Engine.Startup.Sessions.WindowsServiceSession - Could not get the original environment for the service. It may not be running, or it may be running as LOCAL SERVICE or NETWORK SERVICE.

how do I fix this?

Brian Donahue

ANTS Profiler is trying to get to a bit of the registry where services store their running environment. This may be failing because of permissions or rights. I believe the key name is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\<your service name>\Environment