Question : Starting Domino as a Service

I've got a development box running windows 7 and it has been running Lotus Domino 8.5.1 as a service since installed many months ago.

I wanted to rename a folder this morning and so went into Services on the computer and hit Stop on the Lotus Domino Server Service. Since then it won't start as a service. A message comes up as follows
"The Lotus Domino Server (CProgramFilex86IBMLotusDominodata) service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs.".

I've started troubleshooting but can not work this one out. I'm suspecting its a Windows problem as I can go into the Domino folder and run nserver.exe and the server comes up fine without any errors. Through the course of the day I've: -
1) Made a copy of the Domino Folder (called it Domino Backup) and reinstalled Domino the over the original, rebooted.
2) Removed the original Domino folder (keeping the Domino Backup I made) and reinstalled.
3) Uninstalled Domino, rebooted. Reinstalled Domino, rebooted.
4) Renamed the folder back to what it was. It was a folder that I only created in the data directory last week for some testing.
5) Removed the notes.jar file and then put it back after verifying that it didn't make a difference.
6) Ran load compact -D, so on all databases. And then a straight load compact.
7) Ran fixup -F on all databases.

In the Service properties the Log On is set to Local System account and Allow service to interact with desktop as it's always been.

I've set the recovery to restart the service on first and second failure. I did also set it to Restart the service on subsequent failures and reboot, but that didn't work so I've said take no action on Subsequent failures.

I am out of ideas... what next?

I did however install a new modem/router last week and I'm not sure that I've restarted the server since installing that, although I don't see why that would stop the service from running and allow Domino Server to run 'as an application' alright. The server has a fixed IP Address defined in it's network adapter settings and the router is set to not lease that address to any other computer (using DHCP).

Answer : Starting Domino as a Service

Yes, but we would need the log of the server when it was started as a service, in order to see what happens then.
We need to see whether this is the Domino server or Windows service problem.

Maybe something's wrong with that service's arguments.
You can check that route. Try to remove notes.ini and other two params from the service in registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\

I know my domino had a problem with parenthesis in its path.