Error 1061: The Service Cannot Accept Control Messages At This Time

1. Open Services snap-in by running services.msc command.

2. Try to identify the dependency services for the service with which you’re facing the issue. Then attempt to stop them. In our case, the dependency service which Network List Service, also failed to stop with same error. It is the real culprit which prevented stopping of Network Location Awareness service.

3. So we double clicked on the service and noted down its Service name.

4. Then we opened Task Manager and switched to Services tab. Now we were able to locate the service here with its Service name obtained from previous step. Now we noted down its process ID (PID).

5. Next, we switched to Details tab on Task Manager and searched for PID we got in previous step. Now we’re able to locate the host which was carrying the problematic process. We selected this host and hit End task button.

6. A confirmation prompt immediately appeared to block/confirm us for this operation. We hit End process button then.

7. This finally stopped the problematic process and we confirmed the same from Services tab.

We also checked the Services snap-in and re-confirmed that the service was stopped.

So in this way, you can stop any service which is giving your error 1061.

To demonstrate above solution, you can checkout this video: