When you say windows service list, are you referring to the Services control panel?
In the Services Control panel you will want to look for SQL Server as the name and not mssqlserver.
When you installed SQL Server, did you install as default instance or as a named instance?
Do you have the SQL Browser running?
Do you have windows (or any other) firewall running?
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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