C# Windows Service Timeout on startup

Question

I\'m having difficulty trying to determine the cause of a timeout in a Windows Service I\'ve created with C#. I\'ve spent a considerable amount of time looking at several posts

Answer 1

I fixed similar issue by turning off publisher evidence generation in config file. The service also did not have authenticode signing but adding following line immediately fixed the issue on the machine where it has been reproduced consistently.

Also recommended in this MSDN source:
"We recommend that services use the element to improve startup performance. Using this element can also help avoid delays that can cause a time-out and the cancellation of the service startup. "