The following error occurs on trying to start a Windows Service that is based
on a C# application I am writing:

[SC] StartService FAILED 1053:

The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.

My application has the install section setup as described in many different
documents. And it does install sucessfully as "LocalSystem" and "Automatic".

[SC] GetServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: autobackup
       TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
       START_TYPE         : 2   AUTO_START
       ERROR_CONTROL      : 1   NORMAL
       BINARY_PATH_NAME   : "I:\Program Files\Filebackup\AutoBackup.exe"
       LOAD_ORDER_GROUP   :
       TAG                : 0
       DISPLAY_NAME       : AutoBackup
       DEPENDENCIES       :
       SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem

Microsoft's documentation states that on a Service start request, OnStart()
is called and must return within 30 seconds; otherwise, the aforementioned
error will occur.

The OnStart section of my code, for testing, just has an entry to write to
the application event log and that is all, so I am rather puzzled as to why
it should not return from OnStart within 30 secs.

protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
    EventLog.WriteEntry("AutoBackupScheduler",  
          DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + " - Started.");
}

I have tried various suggestions of adding the application directory to the
System path and to set the login to a userid and password rather than
"LocalSystem" but to no avail.

As this kind of thing cannot be debugged, at least in any way I know of, I
am enquiring of the general community to see if there are any further
suggestions.

By the way, there are no dependencies as least that I am aware of (i.e, no
required DLL's that I have created).

Thanks very much for any assiastance and have a great day!!!