I know I am quite late to answer this but I faced a similar issue , i.e., the error: “The service cannot accept control messages at this time.” and would like to add this as a reference for others. You can try killing this service using powershell (run powershell as administrator): #Get the PID of … Read more
You can use NET stop, which is synchronous, i.e it will wait until the service stops. See – NET stop
I experimented with some test services and found it was not the length of any property that caused my problem (“System error 2 … system cannot find the file specified”) to begin with. My built-in service installer uses three properties: ServiceName, ServiceTitle, ServiceDescription. On installing, I found that it writes a full-service path to the … Read more