The service cannot accept control messages at this time

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I just stopped an Application Pool in IIS  When trying to start it  IIS complains that   The service cannot accept control messages at this time   Exception from HRESULT  0x80080425    What gives  From whence did this error come  Looking at the Event Viewer  gt  System shows these warnings   A worker process  1456  serving application pool  MyAppPool  failed to stop a listener channel for protocol  http  in the allotted time   The data field contains the error number  A process serving application pool  MyAppPool  suffered a fatal communication error with the Windows Process Activation Service  The process id was  10592   The data field contains the error number  A process serving application pool  MyAppPool  exceeded time limits during shut down  The process id was  10516    This resolved itself after about 5-minutes  at which point we tried to restart the website  and received   The World Wide Web Publish Service  W3SVC  is stopped  Web sites cannot be started unless the World Wide Web Publishing Service  W3SVC  is running   So  we started the W3SVC service  and then we could start our website

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Restarting the machine worked for me but not every time.

If you are really stuck on this then follow below steps

Open Task Manager
A window will open. Click on Details tab.
Search for the process name you wanted to restart/stop.
Select process, right click on it, select End task option.
A confirmation dialog box will appear. Click on End process button.
Now try to restart your service from Services.msc window.

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I forgot I had mine attached to Visual Studio debugger  Be sure to disconnect from there  and then wait a moment  Otherwise killing the process viewing the PID from the Worker Processes functionality of IIS manager will work too

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I had this issue recently   Problem statement  Mine was a windows service that I run locally by attaching VS debugger  When I stop debugging and try to restart stop the service  under services msc  I used to get the mentioned error   Solution    Open up Task manager   Search for the service  based on the exe name and not service name  for those that are different    Kill the service     On doing the above the service is stopped

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This helped me  just wait about a minute or two      Wait a few minutes  then retry your operation    Ref  https   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms833805 aspx

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I killed related w3wp exe  on a friends  advise  at task manager and it worked    Note  Use at your own risk  Be careful picking which one to kill

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I kept having this problem whenever I tried to start an app pool more than once  Rather than rebooting  I simply run the Application Information Service   Note  This service is set to run manually on my system  which may be the reason for the problem   From its description  it seems obvious that it is somehow involved      Facilitates the running of interactive applications with additional administrative privileges   If this service is stopped  users will be unable to launch applications with the additional administrative privileges they may require to perform desired user tasks    Presumably  IIS manager  as well as most other processes running as an administrator  does not maintain admin privileges throughout the life of the process  but instead request admin rights from the Application Information service on a case-by-case basis   Source  social technech microsoft com

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In my case  the VS debugger was attached to the w3wp process  After detaching the debugger  I was able to restart the Application Pool

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I stopped the IIS Worker Process  in task manager   and then started the IIS again  It worked

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Being impatient  I created a new App Pool with the same settings and used that

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Restarting the IIS windows service  World Wide Web Publishing Service  and then starting the application pool has worked for me  However  as the top answer suggests it may have just been the waiting that caused it to subsequently work

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The error message could result due to the following reason    The service associated with Credential Manager does not start  Some files associated with the application have gone corrupt    Please follow the steps mentioned below to resolve the issue   Method 1    Click on the    Start    In the text box that reads    Search Program and Files    type    Services    Right click on    Services    and select    Run as Administrator    In the Services Window  look for Credential Manager Service and    Stop    it  Restart the computer and    Start    the Credential Manager Service and set it to    Automatic     Restart the computer and it should work fine    Method 2  1      Run System File Checker  Refer to the link mentioned below for additional information  http   support microsoft com kb 929833

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