title: Tor Win32 Service doesn't start
body: <p>I have a Windows service named <em>Tor Win32 Service</em> that was installed by the Tor installer today but does not start. I get the message <em>Windows could not start the Tor Win32 Service service on Local Computer. Error 1064: An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request.</em> The service is installed with this path to the executable</p>
  
  <pre><code>"E:\...\tor browser\browser\torbrowser\tor\tor.exe" --nt-service "-f" "e:\...\tor browser\browser\torbrowser\data\tor\torrc"
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  <p>This post <a href="https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15207/problems-with-starting-the-tor-service-on-windows-10-error-1064">https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/15207/problems-with-starting-the-tor-service-on-windows-10-error-1064</a> suggests that the problem (when running the service for a Tor relay) is the log file path in <code>torrc</code>. But (a) I fixed that and it did not solve the problem and (b) I don't want to run a Tor relay anyway, I need the service to provide a proxy for my Python program.</p>