Hi,

I have a windows service that has been working perfectly, but now it won't start. I'm getting a 1053 error reading:

"The WinTasks7 service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

I've tried running it as administrator and I've even commented out any work the service is supposed to do..

Protected Overrides OnStart(ByVal args() as string)

'bgTasks.RunWorkerAsync()

End Sub

Still no juice..

Tracing the .exe file in process monitor I noticed that the service is trying to access some non-existsing registry keys..

- NAME NOT FOUND: HKU\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\.NETFramework

- NAME NOT FOUND: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\GCStressStart

- NAME NOT FOUND: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\GCStressStartAtJit

- NAME NOT FOUND: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\DisableConfigCache

- NO MORE ENTRIES: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework

Does this make any sense to anyone?