>>Maybe your service is not allowed to start under your logon account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_service
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>My account has full rights on that server.

Even a local Administrator does not have the same privileges as System or Service accounts.

And, if you want to run something as an admin by double-clicking on it in Windows Explorer, you have to run Windows Explorer as Administrator.


>>Can you use sc.exe to start/stop your service?
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>From the command line is get the same message:
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>"The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."