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Service Program Starts and then Stops?

I have a simple Service program that compiles and installs OK.  It Shows up in services but it's not started.  I select start and the following message appears:

The service on Local computer started and then stopped.  Some services stop automatically if the have no work to do, for example the Performance Logs and Alerts service.

Heres the code.  It's pretty bare bones.

thx

Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()

        ' This call is required by the Component Designer.
        InitializeComponent()

        ' Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
        CanStop = True
        CanPauseAndContinue = True
        ServiceName = "Archive Backup Service"
        timer = New Timer
        timer.Interval = 1
        AddHandler timer.Elapsed, AddressOf OnTimer

    End Sub

    'UserService overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
    Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
        If disposing Then
            If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
                components.Dispose()
            End If
        End If
        MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
    End Sub

    ' The main entry point for the process
    <MTAThread()> _
    Shared Sub Main()
        Dim ServicesToRun() As System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase

        ' More than one NT Service may run within the same process. To add
        ' another service to this process, change the following line to
        ' create a second service object. For example,
        '
        '   ServicesToRun = New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase () {New Service1, New MySecondUserService}
        '
        ServicesToRun = New System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase() {New ArcBack}

        System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun)
    End Sub

    'Required by the Component Designer
    Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer

    ' NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Component Designer
    ' It can be modified using the Component Designer.  
    ' Do not modify it using the code editor.
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
        '
        'ArcBack
        '

    End Sub

#End Region

    Protected Overrides Sub OnStart(ByVal args() As String)
        ' Add code here to start your service. This method should set things
        ' in motion so your service can do its work.
        EventLog.WriteEntry("Archive Backup Started")
        timer.Enabled = True
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub OnStop()
        ' Add code here to perform any tear-down necessary to stop your service.
        EventLog.WriteEntry("Archive Backup Stopped")
        timer.Enabled = False

    End Sub
    Protected Overrides Sub OnPause()
        EventLog.WriteEntry("Archive Backup Paused")
        timer.Enabled() = False
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub OnContinue()
        EventLog.WriteEntry("Archive Backup Continuing")
        timer.Enabled = True
    End Sub

    Protected Sub OnTimer(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As ElapsedEventArgs)
        EventLog.WriteEntry("The timer fired!")
    End Sub

End Class
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Both good suggestions but neither resolved the issue.  I've rewarded you both points based on constructive input

The solution was a Log On configuration issue.  I was playing around with the properties and under the  Log On tab,   Log in as:, This Account was selected with a default server and password in place.  I changed Log in as to Local System Account and the problem was resolved.  I'll have to poke around to see If I can set this on install.

thx

Kurt
I also found that this error will occur if you screw up your app.config file.  I had my service working fine.  Then, I went into make some changes to the app.config.  Added a new key that had a bad character in the value "<"  tisk... tisk...

It'll compile just fine but the the app.config becomes invalid and that'll stop the whole thing from working.  The only reason I found it was I noticed a little warning in the task list about the invalid character.