Its designed to run as a service and has features that uses the Service-ability. I could run it in console-mode but that would force us to change the application design. It would be smooth to have the same application on windows and linux and not change the application code/design. But it seems that running it as a service is a bit tricky, it doesn't just run :/ Fyi, this is what I get when installing the service: fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub although it installs ok. It also looks like that the first time when I do net start I get a access denied like this: Code: $ wine net start App The App service is starting. Access denied Any ideas on what could cause this behaviour?