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Event ID 7044: The following service is taking more than … minutes to start and may have stopped responding

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

Look up a Windows event ID from Event Viewer, a SIEM alert or a log export: what it means, the fields it records, and what to check. Many IDs are used by more than one source (event 41 is both a Kernel-Power crash and a boot error), so every definition is shown, the one people usually mean first. The message text is Windows' own, read from the event providers of Windows 10.0.26200.0, 2026-10-28; the notes are ours, based on Microsoft's security auditing reference.

Try: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 1074, 7045, 1102, 4104, 1149

The following service is taking more than … minutes to start and may have stopped responding

Event 7044
Service Control Manager
System log
Information
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
The following service is taking more than … minutes to start and may have stopped responding: …

Contact your system administrator or service vendor for approximate startup times for this service.

If you think this service might be slowing system response or logon time, talk to your system administrator about whether the service should be disabled until the problem is identified.

You may have to restart the computer in safe mode before you can disable the service.