ColdFusion 2021 question: has anyone been able to get the ODBC services to start? If so, how?

yes, I set it automatically start on startup. What seems to be your issue? By any chance are you McAfee on that machine? Perhaps the on-access scan is blocking it.

Not running McAffe on the machine. I am using Apache 24 as the web server on Windows server 2012. But after installing update 2 (which is supposed to resolve this issue) I cannot recreate the connector. Attempting to remove it fails and throws an "Could not determine Apache control script file" error. So possibly that is a factor. Both automatic and manual startup fails on both ODBC services.