The Required hide.me System Service Could Not Be Started Error

Last modified: March 1, 2019

What is this Required hide.me System service and do I remove this error?

This error indicates that your Windows operating system is having problems starting a required service. In our following steps we will show you how to start this service manually.

Start Services Control Manager

1. Open Run window: press the WinKey+R key combination
2. Enter Services: type the following command services.msc and press enter.

At this moment you are looking at the Windows Services Control Manager. In it you will find all of the services installed on your computer. We will be looking into detail for two of them:

• hide.me VPN service
• Windows Event Log service

In order to start the missing required hide.me system service manually and to check its dependent services, go through the following steps:

Start hide.me VPN service

1. Scroll down to the letter “h” and locate service called: hide.me VPN service
2. Right-click on it and select Start

In case the service failed to start, double-click on it and go to Dependencies tab. Once there, you will find a list of services that are required for our service to work. Expand them all and check if they have the statuts Running beside them in Services menu. In conclusion, start the hide.me VPN service again.

In addition, should you still encounter problems, check if the service called Windows Event Log service is running. If it is not running, go to the similar steps in order to start it.

If you’re an advanced user and would like to learn more about Windows Services, please follow this link.