Error 1064 When trying to start tor service on windows 10

Question

What i have done:

1. Downloaded the tor expert bundle zip file
2. extracted the zip file toC:\tor\
3. Add the C:\tor\Tor to the Path system environment variable
4. Added C:\tor\Tor\tor.exe to the LOCAL SERVICE group with the Full Control privileges
5. Add C:\tor\ directroy to the SERVICE group with the Full Control privileges
6. Created the torrc file in C:\tor\Data\Tor\torrc
7. Created the C:\tor\Data\DataDir directory
8. Used tor --service install -options -f C:\tor\Data\Tor\torrc to make tor service

The contents of the torrc file

DataDirectory C:\tor\Data\DatadDir
ControlPort 9051
HashedControlPassword 16:09...

What i get

PS C:\Windows\system32> tor --service install -options -f C:\tor\Data\Tor\torrc
Running on a Post-Win2K OS, so we'll assume that the LocalService account exists.
Done with CreateService.
Service installed successfully
Service failed to start : An exception occurred in the service when handling the control request.

This is what i get when trying to manually start the service.

I tried the tor-win32 zip file from https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/7.5.1/ and the same error displayed again. Anyway when i run the command tor --service install the service is installed and started successfully. So i guess there is a problem with the torrc file.

Answer 1

Verify that none of the paths provided are relative or contain environment variables, because neither is handled properly. Also, I also had problems with paths because I used UNIX-style path separators on my Windows machine. --verify-config yelled at me what the paths provided were relative when they were not – because they explicitly started with the drive letter and root directory specification. I had to fix all of the above issues before the Tor service could run properly.