Start Pending After Reboot

[nhouck]

I have a server with 50 services installed, after a reboot it takes about 30 minutes for all of them to start back up. Not sure why it takes so long, I have the delay between service startup set to 0 seconds for this server. Still it seems to start them 1 at a time and very slowly at that.

 

While the services are starting they are in "Start Pending" state and manually starting them gives an error "Cannot start service TC64116053574100410844573 on computer '.'."

 

Users see this and start flooding support tickets that there is a problem with their server.

 

1. Is there anyway to get the services to start faster? This is a dual quad-xeon box so I imagine it can handle a few services starting at the same time.

 

2. Is there anyway to manually force a start of a game server if it is in start pending state?