Re: EA app crashes at startup, background service problem

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@FifaRulesCanada wrote:

Keep occasionally running into this issue, and a repair of the Visual C++ Redistributable (and subsequent reboot) usually fixies this.  However, this is an annoying process to need to resort to on occasion.

Looking into the error logs found the message "os_error":"An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions.\r\n".  Other reports of this error in other apps seem to indicate that a simple restart of the Host Network Service is all that is needed.  

In an administrative command prompt, run the following:

net stop EABackgroundService
net stop CmService
net stop hns
net start hns
net start CmService

After this completes, EA Desktop app should be able to start.

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Thank you so much, these idiots telling people to uninstall C++ redists CLEARLY never develop things.