"PeterJ" wrote : Where do you have JAVA_HOME defined? In the User Variables or the System Variables? It has to be set in System Variables. System Variables: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_15 "PeterJ" wrote : What account are you using for the service? If you set up a special account, did you make sure that account has read/write access to all of the JBossAS files and directories? Computer admin. Should have full access right. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4161377#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...