>Maybe the UI is the issue.
If you are making reference to the message box, I removed it. This was tested about 20 minutes ago. From the executable, I see it appearing the Task manager and it disappears. So, clicking on the EXE starts it but it stops immediately. From the service interface or sc, the same happens, except that the service does not start, making it also disappearing from the Task manager a second or two after it has started.