Error 1053: “The service did not respond in a timely fashion” when attempting to start, stop or pause a service
Error
Error 1053: “The service did not respond in a timely fashion” when attempting to start, stop or pause a service
Cause
Service is not started in timeperiod that Windows defined as default to start a service from services.msc window.
Solution
1. Go to Start > Run > and type regedit
2. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
3. With the control folder selected, right click in the pane on the right and select new DWORD Value
4. Name the new DWORD: ServicesPipeTimeout
5. Right-click ServicesPipeTimeout, and then click Modify
6. Click Decimal, type ‘180000’, and then click OK
7. Restart the computer
Oracle Service not started
I faced this issue in Oracle Services while starting the Oracle Database. On starting the Oracle Services from Services.msc i got this error.
Error 1053: “The service did not respond in a timely fashion” when attempting to start, stop or pause a service
Solution
1. Go to Start > Run > and type regedit
2. Navigate to Oracle location: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraDB18Home1.
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3. Go to the Oracle_XE_AUTOSTART parameter as shown in figure and change to false. It will stop the Oracle to start with Services of windows.
4. Then start the Services of Oracle in Services.msc window.
5. Then manually start the database by connecting SQLPLUS
SQLPLUS / as sysdba
Startup