diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f5b8084..2ca0f04 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3073,13 +3073,13 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-service"
-version = "0.7.0"
+version = "0.8.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d24d6bcc7f734a4091ecf8d7a64c5f7d7066f45585c1861eba06449909609c8a"
+checksum = "857224b3b211c6f3616921f081ee54721ee3ad2ace2fac6a6337e032f7b4dcf2"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.13.1",
  "widestring",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8a4ea38..b01f2c7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ libc = "0.2"
 #     service has *somewhere* to write — the standard `tracing` →
 #     DashboardLayer path is TUI-only and a Service has no terminal.
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
-windows-service = "0.7"
+windows-service = "0.8"
 tracing-appender = "0.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]