title: Problems starting MongoDB on Windows
body: <p>I did the mongodb installation, but when I try to start in windows 10 console, the log shows me the following:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>C:\WINDOWS\system32>"C:\Program
    Files\MongoDB\Server\3.6\bin\mongod.exe" 2017-12-13T11:09:06.089-0700
    I CONTROL  [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=11240 port=27017
    dbpath=C:\data\db\ 64-bit host=DESKTOP-5GUM84N
    2017-12-13T11:09:06.089-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] targetMinOS:
    Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 2017-12-13T11:09:06.090-0700 I
    CONTROL  [initandlisten] db version v3.6.0
    2017-12-13T11:09:06.091-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] git version:
    a57d8e71e6998a2d0afde7edc11bd23e5661c915 2017-12-13T11:09:06.092-0700
    I CONTROL  [initandlisten] OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.1u-fips  22
    Sep 2016 2017-12-13T11:09:06.092-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
    allocator: tcmalloc 2017-12-13T11:09:06.092-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] modules: none 2017-12-13T11:09:06.093-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] build environment: 2017-12-13T11:09:06.093-0700 I
    CONTROL  [initandlisten]     distmod: 2008plus-ssl
    2017-12-13T11:09:06.094-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]     distarch:
    x86_64 2017-12-13T11:09:06.095-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]<br>
    target_arch: x86_64 2017-12-13T11:09:06.095-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] options: {} 2017-12-13T11:09:06.100-0700 I -<br>
    [initandlisten] Detected data files in C:\data\db\ created by the
    'wiredTiger' storage engine, so setting the active storage engine to
    'wiredTiger'. 2017-12-13T11:09:06.101-0700 I STORAGE  [initandlisten]
    wiredtiger_open config:
    create,cache_size=3534M,session_max=20000,eviction=(threads_min=4,threads_max=4),config_base=false,statistics=(fast),log=(enabled=true,archive=true,path=journal,compressor=snappy),file_manager=(close_idle_time=100000),statistics_log=(wait=0),verbose=(recovery_progress),
    2017-12-13T11:09:06.574-0700 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger
    message [1513188546:574263][11240:140724166549840], txn-recover: Main
    recovery loop: starting at 10/4608 2017-12-13T11:09:06.787-0700 I
    STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message
    [1513188546:786400][11240:140724166549840], txn-recover: Recovering
    log 10 through 11 2017-12-13T11:09:07.034-0700 I STORAGE 
    [initandlisten] WiredTiger message
    [1513188547:34042][11240:140724166549840], txn-recover: Recovering log
    11 through 11 2017-12-13T11:09:07.732-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.732-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING:
    Access control is not enabled for the database.
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.733-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] **<br>
    Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted.
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.735-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.735-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING:
    This server is bound to localhost. 2017-12-13T11:09:07.736-0700 I
    CONTROL  [initandlisten] **          Remote systems will be unable to
    connect to this server. 2017-12-13T11:09:07.736-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] **          Start the server with --bind_ip 
    to specify which IP 2017-12-13T11:09:07.737-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] **          addresses it should serve responses from,
    or with --bind_ip_all to 2017-12-13T11:09:07.737-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] **          bind to all interfaces. If this behavior
    is desired, start the 2017-12-13T11:09:07.738-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] **          server with --bind_ip 127.0.0.1 to disable
    this warning. 2017-12-13T11:09:07.738-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.739-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.739-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten] ** WARNING:
    The file system cache of this machine is configured to be greater than
    40% of the total memory. This can lead to increased memory pressure
    and poor performance. 2017-12-13T11:09:07.740-0700 I CONTROL 
    [initandlisten] See
    <a href="http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/wt-windows-system-file-cache" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/wt-windows-system-file-cache</a>
    2017-12-13T11:09:07.740-0700 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
    2017-12-13T15:09:08.161-0300 W FTDC     [initandlisten] Failed to
    initialize Performance Counters for FTDC: WindowsPdhError:
    PdhExpandCounterPathW failed with 'The specified object is not
    found on the computer.' for counter '\Memory\Available Bytes'
    2017-12-13T15:09:08.161-0300 I FTDC     [initandlisten] Initializing
    full-time diagnostic data capture with directory
    'C:/data/db/diagnostic.data' 2017-12-13T15:09:08.165-0300 I NETWORK 
    [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I followed all the intructions in <a href="https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/#run-mongodb-community-edition" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/#run-mongodb-community-edition</a>
  but i can't start mongodb. anyone knows how to fix this launch error ?</p>
  
  <p>I hope your help guys :c</p>
  
  <p>Regards!</p>