I Installed SQL Server Express on my work PC, and had it up and running at the time of installation. But I guess after a restart of PC, the Windows Service "SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS)" can no longer be started.
I have my normal user, and an Admin-User for my PC. When I open services.msc with my normal user I see the service, but all functionality is greyed out. When I open services.msc with my admin user, the service is not there.
In my years of working with windows services, I've never experienced a "missing" service from services.msc before.
I've looked in registry here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services With both my normal and admin user I see these services: SQLAgent$SQLEXPRESS SQLBrowser SQLTELEMETRY$SQLEXPRESS
But not this: "MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS"
Installation: I don't remember in detail, but I'm pretty sure I just double clicked the installation launcher, and gave my admin-user when prompted for admin permissions.
Do you have any idea what is going on ?