A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the….

A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Windows Error Reporting Service service to connect.

My new and really fast laptop has been occasionally freezing all input for a long period.. maybe a minute, maybe more.. and then suddenly unfreezes and catches up. I can still move the mouse around, but no clicks and no keyboard input is accepted.

What the heck?

The error above is what I found in the event viewer after it just happened today.

Any solutions out there?

Running Windows 8 64, Dell XPS 15.

A big ol SSD too. Hope that’s not going out…

Update: I’ve noticed this error shows up in searches for a lot of similar errors, such as:

a timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the windows error reporting service service to connect

a timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the print spooler service to connect

a timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the file replication service to connect

a timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) vmtools

and also while waiting:

for a  transaction response from the VMTools service

for the Symantec Endpoint Protection service to connect

for the SQL Server Reporting Services service to connect

a transaction response from the AudioEndpointBuilder service

a transaction response from the ShellHWDetection service

Ok so the list is too long…