Yay, I fixed it...
From the monthly archives: May 2011
I received the following error while installing QuickBooks 2011 on Windows XP.
Error 1920: Service Intuit QuickBooks FCS (QBFCService) failed to start.
The service that was failing to start was actually “QBIDPService” (aka QBVSS). I tried to start the service manually via Windows Services (services.msc) but received a timeout error. I spent a while trying [...]
