Error 1053 the service did not respond to the start or control request

May 21, 2023 by Tarik

I just had the same problem.

It turned out it was because I was running it as a console in debug mode – like the code you have above

#if (!DEBUG)

#else //debug code

#endif

And I had compiled it in debug mode and installed the service

When I compiled it in release mode it worked as expected

Hope this helps