Make sure a windows service is really removed

Sometimes when I uninstall a service with Topshelf everything reports back as normal but the service could still be seen in the services pane.

An alternative way to force a removal of a service is to use:

I was then given the message:

 "The specified service has been marked for deletion" with FAILED 1072

The service was still visible in the services pane even though I refreshed it.

The problem was that I had task manager (with the process view) running. After having closed task manager I re-run the above code and then got the message "The specified service does not exists as an installed service" with failed 1060. After a refresh it was not removed from the services pane. 

Case closed!

Windows service: The service cannot accept control messages at this time

So I had just updated a windows service with some errorhandling so that a mail will be sent if the service crashed or was stopped or shutdown. When I tried to manually stop the service both from the services gui or from a command prompt I was greeted with:

Error: 1061 The service cannot accept control messages at this time 

No matter what I did I always got the same message. I waited and I don´t remember if I even rebooted the computer but the only way in which I could take control of the service again was to manually choose end task for the process in windows task manager.