Re: Service not starting during install

> Any ideas now?

Are you *sure* you have checked the permissions of the os user_id that
is assigned to run the postgreSQL service ?
PG is very specific about the permissions it wants and just as
importantly it is very specific about the permissions it DOES NOT
want.

I would suggest you start with this entry which describes installing
on Windows.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Running_%26_Installing_PostgreSQL_On_Native_Windows

I have installed PG on a number of Win OS machines and in almost every
time when I have run into issues you described above it has come back
to a permissions.   As an example, last time  a customer's network
tech changed the  user_id of the database service to a 'domain admin'
and on the next reboot of the box, the pg service just wouldn't
start.  When we changed it back to a domain user everything worked as
it should ... after spending 3 hrs trying to sort out what the problem
was.