SQL Server Configuration manager: The request failed or service did not respond in timely fashion

This morning when I tried to connect to my local SQL Server 2008 R2 instance, it was failing constantly with the error on subject line when I'm trying to START the MSSQLServer service. I have around 4 SQL Server service running on this laptop and checked that all the other SQL instance are also stopped including this SQL2k8R2 instance. In general I install the CTP &amp; RC0 versions on a VM to ensure it doesn't disturb any of my demo capabilities during the SQL conferences. As usual the event log...(<a href="http://sqlserver-qa.net/blogs/sql2008/archive/2010/09/28/9599.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9599" width="1" height="1">