Jason.Wilson

Okay thanks. This was a fresh install of 2012 R2. Everything else worked. Great walk through!!!

I do not believe so. If you look at every Windows service the path includes the extension.

I had the same issue as in this thread. I was going to comment there but the forum said to start a new thread rather than reviving that one. The issue seems to be that when the Windows service is created the path is set as; d:\winids\snort\bin\snort /SERVICE But it should be; d:\winids\snort\bin\snort.exe /SERVICE In the registry go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SnortSvc then edit the ImagePath entry to change the path