#155 When choosing "start as system service", Ext2Mgr.exe dies forever.

[Melchior Blausand]

OS: Windows 7 SP1
Issue: When choosing "start as system service", Ext2Mgr.exe hangs. The process is running, but cannot be stopped, even as administrator. The service itself can be started and stopped just fine by shell and by Windows Service Manger. But even after restarts, the manager won't show any GUI ever more.

Replication:

1. Run Ext2Fsd-0.68.exe (or 0.69) to install the application. Restart.
2. Run Ext2Mgr.exe. First time, the GUI works.
3. In the menu, click Manage service. Change to "Start with System" Issue: UI hangs.
4. Open Windows Task Manager.
5. Try to kill the manager process. Issue: It cannot be stopped.
6. Restart and try to uninstall Ext2Fsd. The uninstaller hangs likewise.

I can only uninstall by deleting the files manually and marking the ext2fsd.exe for deletion after reboot.
Mentioned commands from an Administrator command prompt work fine for me.

[Gregg]

any progress, i have a similar issue when I manully start the service for a ext3 disk it just hangs and i have to power off the machine to fix it.