I've developed a Windows Service using Visual Studio. It starts just fine on my Windows 7 Pro dev machine. When I copy the files to a Windows 7 Pro laptop it will not start. When I try to start I instantly get a message: "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." The following is logged to the System Event Log: "A timeout was reached (30 milliseconds) while waiting for the Service1 service to connect." I've increased the ServicesPipeTimeout as per http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824344. Not surprisingly (given the instant response on the "timeout") this hasn't helped. I've also tried "setreg.exe 3 FALSE" and tried to hit the CLR Revokation List URL from the laptop. Both seem to indicate there is no issue with signing. Note that I have *not* signed the service. Anyone have any other ideas?

Note that the service doesn't actually do anything. It's just the Windows Service template compiled. Nothing in OnStart(). Running .NET 4.0 here.

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