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 my case the problem was missing version of .net framework.

My service used

But .net Framework version of server was 4, so by changing 4.5 to 4 the problem fixed: