If you get the following error when trying to run docker-compose up, then you probably have not started the docker service. Do that and try again.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "docker-compose", line 6, in <module>
File "compose\cli\main.py", line 68, in main
File "compose\cli\main.py", line 121, in perform_command
File "compose\cli\main.py", line 938, in up
File "compose\project.py", line 417, in up
File "compose\project.py", line 646, in warn_for_swarm_mode
File "site-packages\docker\api\daemon.py", line 90, in info
File "site-packages\docker\utils\decorators.py", line 46, in inner
File "site-packages\docker\api\client.py", line 189, in _get
File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 488, in get
File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 475, in request
File "site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 596, in send
File "site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 423, in send
File "site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 595, in urlopen
File "site-packages\requests\packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 363, in _make_request
File "httplib.py", line 1042, in request
File "httplib.py", line 1082, in _send_request
File "httplib.py", line 1038, in endheaders
File "httplib.py", line 882, in _send_output
File "httplib.py", line 844, in send
File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipeconn.py", line 31, in connect
File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 22, in wrapped
File "site-packages\docker\transport\npipesocket.py", line 50, in connect
pywintypes.error: (2, 'WaitNamedPipe', 'The system cannot find the file specified.')
Failed to execute script docker-compose
On Windows you will find Docker for Windows in your start menu, that’s the one.