Starting a windows service fails with error 1053 - Stack Overflow One other reason is If you copy the DLL in 'debug' mode to installation folder this issue will come What you need to do is Run the project in 'Release' mode copy the DLL or directly form Release folder rather than Debug folder,,and copy that DLL in to installation folder,it will work You can see the reduction in size of DLL ,it will not contain any debug symbols and like that
Error 1053 When Starting Window Service Written In Python I have already looked at and tried the resolutions to this question that others have posted One user said that to try and change my setup py file from: from distutils core import setup import py