Version 8.5.1 - ERROR: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

bokeron2020 · Mar 25, 2023, 5:03 PM

Hi!

I’m using a modified Windows 10 x64 version where I’ve been using every new version of Notepad++ x64 for the last 2 years without a single problem.

Last update v8.5.1 is showing a window with this error everytime I try to start the program:

The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

I guess something that my custom W10 doesn’t like something that the new version does. Maybe something it needs but it’s been removed from my Windows install.

Could someone please help me with this?
What is this new version needing that the previous one didn’t? What service or .DLL or…?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Alan Kilborn · Mar 25, 2023, 5:22 PM

@bokeron2020

Biggest change is the Windows context menu handler, you know, right-click “Edit with Notepad++”. But the new part of it is for Windows 11. Not sure what the implications are for the older part of it and Windows 10. (I don’t use this part, so I don’t pay full attention to the numerous problems with it)

bokeron2020 · Mar 25, 2023, 6:02 PM

@Alan-Kilborn
Hi Alan.
I was wondering that same question regarding context menu handler - I don’t use it either, but I don’t know if whatever the changes made for W11 can affect the code in a way that now requires something from my W10 that it didn’t before, and as my W10 install has some things removed it now throws me an error.

So finding what it is can help me to “put it back”, so to speak.

OR… it is not the context menu at all. I’m clueless here.

Alan Kilborn · Mar 25, 2023, 7:16 PM

@bokeron2020 said in Version 8.5.1 - ERROR: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.:

I was wondering that same question regarding context menu handler - I don’t use it either

But do you tick the box for installing it, even if you don’t use it? Or have you ticked that box in the past?
(Or, as a non-user of it, I’m perhaps totally off base)

bokeron2020 · Mar 25, 2023, 9:40 PM

@Alan-Kilborn

Nope. Never installed it.
To be sure I just installed v8.5.1 on a clean VM running my modified Windows 10. Same result, installing handler or not.

Error message points to some service or device. I do have a lot of services deleted/disabled… but I don’t see which, if any, may be related to the context handler.

Edit: I forgot to mention… if I install the context handler and try to “Edit with Notepad++” I get an “Error in CreateProcess (1058)” which seems related to the error I wrote above.

Pavel__A · Mar 27, 2023, 8:22 AM

Hi there!
Just installed 8.5.1 on Win11. The new “Open With” change works as expected, via the new explorer sub-menu.
But I don’t like this. Or haven’t been used to it yet.

Can this change be optional? I’d like the old way of Open With, because the new way requires choosing N++ one for every file extension.
Anyway, opening with N++ takes at least one extra click in context menus.

bokeron2020 · Mar 29, 2023, 9:59 PM

I found what the problem is:

AppXSVC needs to be running… but why? It is needed to install the new shell menu “Edit with notepad++” as it comes in a *msix package but I’m not installing it, so there should be no reason for the main exe to be requesting AppXSVC to be running despite it isn’t needed anymore.

Am I misunderstanding something?