# Error 1053: "The service did not respond in a timely fashion" when attempting to start winlogbeat service

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/96489
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** winlogbeat
**Created:** [August 9, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/96489 "2017-08-09T17:32:04Z")
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### Author: ![cghigliotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@cghigliotty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cghigliotty)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/96489/1 "2017-08-09T17:32:04Z")

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Hello all,

When attempting to start the winlogbeat service in Windows I receive the following:

Error 1053: "The service did not respond in a timely fashion" when attempting to start, stop or pause a service."

I've successfully created the service using the Powershell script included in the .zip file but receive this error each time. I'm using the default yaml config file at the moment, I just want to ensure I can initiate the service properly before tailoring the config to talk to our ELK stack.

Any suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.

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### Author: ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/96489/2 "2017-08-09T21:54:27Z")

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Can you please test your config file.

`PS C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat > .\winlogbeat.exe -e -configtest`

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-1053-the-service-did-not-respond-in-a-timely-fashion-when-attempting-to-start-winlogbeat-service/96489/3 "2017-09-06T21:54:37Z")

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