Background Service fails to start

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Attempting to run the Certificate Manager App on Windows 11 X64 with Admin privileges reports that the Background Service fails to start. The error message refers to FAQs which directs to another page.

This page bears not relation to reality in terms of the contents of the 'Program Files\CertifyTheWeb folder.

I have a 5 Minute Rule. If I can’t get an app running in 5 Minutes, it is probably not worth the effort in trying, so I bin it.

Is this the destination for CertifyTheWeb?

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It’s most likely that you have a netsh iplisten rule already defined and therefore you need to allow netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=127.0.0.2.

Our docs cover a lot of that but perhaps you are confusing C:\ProgramData with C:\Program Files

For most users this type of problem isn’t an issue, but if you have network interface restrictions, or you have security tools blocking http API listeners (like the background service is) then it can get complicated.