Hello, I am building FreeSwitch through VS 2010 (not VC++ Express) and I generate FreeSwitchConsole.exe as a console application. No FreeSwitch.exe is generated. FreeSwitchConsole runs fine as an application but I need to run the SW as a service. I installed Freeswitch as a local service that calls FreeSwitchConsole.exe, and this is the output of "sc qc FreeSWITCH": C:\FreeSWITCH>sc qc FreeSWITCH [SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS SERVICE_NAME: FreeSWITCH TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL BINARY_PATH_NAME : C:\FreeSWITCH\FreeSwitchConsole.exe LOAD_ORDER_GROUP : TAG : 0 DISPLAY_NAME : FreeSWITCH DEPENDENCIES : SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem Trying to start FreeSwitch as a service results in Error 1053 Timeout - Event Viewer is : Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the FreeSWITCH service to connect. Or: C:\FreeSWITCH>net start freeswitch The service is not responding to the control function. Is it because I am trying to start a console application as a service? Do I need to have a FreeSwitch.exe and if so, how do I build it? Do I need to create a Windows Service wrapper project? I tried using winserv (supposed to start console apps as service), with same result: C:\FreeSWITCH>..\tools\winserv\winserv start FreeSwitch ERROR 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. What am I missing? Thank you. A.C.