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

In my case, I was publishing service while it was in debug mode.

Solution was:

  • Changing solution to release mode
  • Uninstall old service with command InstallUtil -u WindowsServiceName.exe
  • installing service again InstallUtil -i WindowsServiceName.exe

It worked perfectly after.

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