For the google search: Informatica service start and stops

Yeah, that's exactly what happened to me. Everything looked just fine until the last step of the installation, where the installer pings the new integration service, but there is no answer.
Looking at the services manager, I see that the InformaticaService is stopped. When I restart it, it stops after 5-10 seconds. I thought it's because of the service's account settings, but it's not. After some time of search and re-attempts to make it work, this is what I can say if you're stuck as I was:

• While you're in the installation wizard, on the node configuration step, press the "Advances Settings" button. There, you'll see the min. and max. port numbers. Go back to the node configuration and change the port number so it will be in that range (why it wasn't in the first place? ...)
• The Windows PATH environment variable must contain the informatica server binary folder: <INFORMATICA_INSTALL_DIR>\Server\bin
• If you're still stuck, look after the service.log file in the informatica directory. Look at the error and google it.