Can start a slave from the Dos command prompt using the information from

http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds

When try and make it a Windows Service it starts and will respond to jobs queued up needing an executor. Windows never thinks it finishes staring up and kills process. Windows reports a Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

The Windows error Log says nothing useful timeout after 30 seconds waiting for service to connect.

Snippet of hudson slave error log

This is a Windows slave
Copied maven-agent.jar
Copied maven-interceptor.jar
Copied maven2.1-interceptor.jar
Slave successfully connected and online
ERROR: ticibuild-slave-a: ticibuild-slave-a
[8mha:AAAAWB+LCAAAAAAAAABb85aBtbiIQSmjNKU4P08vOT+vOD8nVc8DzHWtSE4tKMnMz/PLL0ldFVf2c+b/lb5MDAwVRQxSaBqcITRIIQMEMIIUFgAAckCEiWAAAAA=[0mjava.net.UnknownHostException: ticibuild-slave-a: ticibuild-slave-a
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName0(InetAddress.java:1145)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1072)
at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1008)
at java.net.InetAddress.getByName(InetAddress.java:958)
at org.jinterop.dcom.core.JIComServer.<init>(JIComServer.java:425)
at org.jvnet.hudson.wmi.WMI.connect(WMI.java:41)
at hudson.os.windows.ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.afterDisconnect(ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.java:273)
at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer$2.onClosed(SlaveComputer.java:304)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.terminate(Channel.java:613)
at hudson.remoting.Channel$ReaderThread.run(Channel.java:880)