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

My issue was due to target framework mentioned in windows service config was

and my server in which I tried to install windows service was not supported for this .Net version.

Changing which , I could able to resolve the issue.