{"id":608,"date":"2021-04-12T14:04:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fileidea.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2021-04-21T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:31:05","slug":"install-a-service-and-error-windows-could-not-start-the-service-on-local-computer-error-1053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fileidea.com\/2021\/04\/12\/install-a-service-and-error-windows-could-not-start-the-service-on-local-computer-error-1053\/","title":{"rendered":"Install a Service and error: windows could not start the service on local computer error 1053"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is how you add a new Service in Windows Server 2012 (or other windows versions for that matter) and how to find a solution for the error: windows could not start the service on local computer error 1053.  There are three ways to create a service, let us take a look at the first two. Open up Windows Powershell and remember to start it as administrator. While there, run:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: powershell; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nNew-Service -Name &quot;My Cool Program&quot; -BinaryPathName &quot;D:\\CoolProgram\\Release\\TheProgram.exe&quot;\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Or run it in command prompt (CMD) like this, also like administrator:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nsc.exe create &quot;My Cool Program&quot; binPath= &quot;D:\\CoolProgram\\Release\\TheProgram.exe&quot;\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you need to delete your service use: <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nsc.exe delete &quot;My Cool Program&quot;\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"494\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/fileidea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1053.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fileidea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1053.png 494w, https:\/\/fileidea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1053-300x128.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you got this error: <strong>windows could not start the service on local computer error 1053<\/strong>. Then there could be a various kind of reasons for the problem. I have listed my solution to this problem below after trying basically everything.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Error from Event Viewer: &lt;myprogram&gt; <strong>service failed to start due to the following error:<br>The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check if these solve your issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Try install your service and start it with <a href=\"https:\/\/nssm.cc\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSSM &#8211; the Non-Sucking Service Manager<\/a>. <strong>This was the solution that worked for me<\/strong>. You download the program and open up CMD in that folder where you have NSSM unzipped, and then run:<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nnssm install\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Then choose your <strong>file path <\/strong>and give it a <strong>name<\/strong>. Then start the service through the command:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nnssm start &quot;my name of service&quot;\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Other things you can check:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Check .NET version so that it is correct under your web\/app configurations with what you are running on the server (this line)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-codemirror-blocks-code-block code-block\"><pre class=\"CodeMirror\" data-setting=\"{&quot;showPanel&quot;:true,&quot;languageLabel&quot;:&quot;language&quot;,&quot;fullScreenButton&quot;:true,&quot;copyButton&quot;:true,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;htmlmixed&quot;,&quot;mime&quot;:&quot;text\/html&quot;,&quot;theme&quot;:&quot;material&quot;,&quot;lineNumbers&quot;:false,&quot;styleActiveLine&quot;:false,&quot;lineWrapping&quot;:false,&quot;readOnly&quot;:true,&quot;fileName&quot;:&quot;XML&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;HTML&quot;,&quot;maxHeight&quot;:&quot;400px&quot;,&quot;modeName&quot;:&quot;html&quot;}\">\n&lt;startup&gt;\n    &lt;supportedRuntime version=&quot;v4.0&quot; sku=&quot;.NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2&quot;\/&gt;\n&lt;\/startup&gt;\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<ul><li>Check so that you don&#8217;t publish your program with Debug mode, you should publish it with Release mode.<\/li><li>You can also try increasing the time that it takes before a Service stops trying to start: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codetwo.com\/kb\/how-to-extend-the-timeout-for-services-if-they-do-fail-to-start\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.codetwo.com\/kb\/how-to-extend-the-timeout-for-services-if-they-do-fail-to-start\/\">see this website for instructions<\/a>. Probably not the issue though but who knows.<\/li><li>Check that you have all the assemblies\/dependencies for your project.<\/li><li>You can try run everything in a try and catch block to catch the error (<a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/posts\/46674817\/revisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/posts\/46674817\/revisions\">see from stackoverflow<\/a>) (which did nothing for me):<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: csharp; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nusing System;\nusing System.Diagnostics;\nusing System.ServiceProcess;\n\nnamespace WindowsService\n{\n    static class Program\n    {\n        static void Main()\n        {\n            try\n            {\n                ServiceBase&#x5B;] ServicesToRun;\n                ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase&#x5B;] \n                { \n                    new Service1() \n                };\n                ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);\n            }\n            catch (Exception ex)\n            {\n                EventLog.WriteEntry(&quot;Application&quot;, ex.ToString(), EventLogEntryType.Error);\n            }\n        }\n    }\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you add a new Service in Windows Server 2012 (or other windows versions for that matter) and how to find a solution for the error: windows could not start the service on local computer error 1053. 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