Starting a windows service fails with error 1053

Question

I have a windows service that is failing to start, giving an error \"Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion\".

Answer 1

I had that issue and the source of my problem was config file. I edited it in notepad and notepad added one special character which cause service not to run properly because config file was ruined. I saw that special character in notepadd++ and after delete it, service started to run successfully as previous did.