Sunil,

I created some Windows Services and I always have a lot of problems with
them. When I start them in the services control panel, they sometimes take
long time to start, only to return an error 'Service did not respond' or
something while they actually did start. I can't control them anymore after
that.

This behaviour can be caused by several things.

- Make sure your eventlog is not full when starting service
- Try to avoid doing things like reading files, connecting to servers or
databases, etc, in the OnStart method, but place them in a seperate thread.

Once your service stopped responding, you can't control it anymore so my
advice is to reboot your pc, check for my above points, and reinstall +
start the service.

Good luck,

Razzie

Hard to tell without seeing any code, but in general it is due to the fact
that you don't return from you OnStart method.

Willy.