Unable to start a service on a Windows server.

Timeout error or unable to start a service on a Windows server

While starting a computer running Windows server, if a service does not start or shows one of the following error messages,
  • The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion (Error: 1053/Event ID: 7000)
  • Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for a transaction response from the ServiceName service (Event ID: 7011)
  • A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the ServiceName service to connect (Event ID: 7009)
Please make sure the below steps are followed with the help of sys admin:
  1. Go to Start > Click Run  > Type regedit > click OK
  2. Locate and click on the following registry subkey "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control"

  3. In the right pane, check for  ServicesPipeTimeout entry
Note : If the ServicesPipeTimeout entry does not exist, you have to create it. 

Kindly follow the below steps to create a new entry called ServicesPipeTimeout:
  1. Go to Edit  > New >  DWORD Value

  2. Name the entry as ServicesPipeTimeout

  3. Right-click ServicesPipeTimeout, and click Modify
  4. Choose the base type as Decimal
  5. Under Value Data , enter 60000

  6. Click OK
This value represents the time in milliseconds before a service times out. Restart the computer

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