Startup errors
Startup errors prevent the product, daemon, or desktop environment from initializing correctly on the host system.
These pages help users compare related error messages, common causes, and how-to-fix steps across different tools that fail in the same way.
Startup errors prevent a product from reaching a healthy running state at all, which means the user often has very little telemetry beyond one launch-time message, service event, or daemon log line.
This hub groups startup failures across products so users can compare boot-time dependencies, initialization order, service registration, and local environment issues.
Docker Desktop Access Denied
Docker Desktop failed to start with Access DeniedDocker
HCS_E_HYPERV_NOT_INSTALLEDDocker Desktop reported an unexpected WSL error because Hyper-V support was unavailableDocker
The media is write protectedDocker Desktop with Windows Containers failed because the media is write protectedDocker