I have created and exe with Labview (7.1) and have turned it into a service using the "Creating a Windows NT Service Using LabVIEW" tutorial. The program and its interface program run fine when I don't try to start it as a service. When I try to start the service, it does start up fine, but it then gives error 1053: the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. When this happens, the service stops. I know it is starting fine because my interface program connects to it just after I start it up but disconnects when the error occurs. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks.