title: Sql Server Services not restarting - The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion
body: <p>I tried to establish remote connection to my Sql Server 2014 on Windows Server 2008 machine. To do this I enabled TCP/IP added port 1433. The prompt asked me to restart my services for the changes to take effect. However on trying to restart the services, I'm getting the below error message -</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The request failed or the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Consult the event log or other applicable error logs for details.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The steps I have tried - 
  1. Tried disabling VIA
  2. Tried replacing Master and MastLog files from TemplateData to Data
  3. Tried disabling TCP/IP
  4. Tried starting the services with user as local system</p>
  
  <p>I tried the above based on similar questions from stackoverflow and nothing seems to work.</p>
  
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