Error 1053: the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion

Question

I have recently inherited a couple of applications that run as windows services, and I am having problems providing a gui (accessible from a context menu in system tray) wit

Answer 1

In service class within OnStart method don't do huge operation, OS expect short amount of time to run service, run your method using thread start:

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    Thread t = new Thead(new ThreadStart(MethodName)); // e.g.
    t.Start();
}