The Local System account may have insufficient permissions to start the service. The service is started by the Local System account instead of the Local Service account ( NT AUTHORITY\LocalService). One or more of the following services may fail to start on a computer that's running Windows 7:Īdditionally, when trying to start the service manually, you may receive the following error message:Įrror 1079: The account specified for this service is different from the account specified for other services running in the same process Cause This article helps fix error 1079 that occurs when some services fail to start on a computer that's running Windows 7.Īpplies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2012 R2 Original KB number: 2478117 Symptoms Service fails to start and you receive an error 1079 on a computer that's running Windows 7
