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Event ID 7046: The following service has repeatedly stopped responding to service control requests

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

Look up a Windows event ID from Event Viewer, a SIEM alert or a log export: what it means, the fields it records, and what to check. Many IDs are used by more than one source (event 41 is both a Kernel-Power crash and a boot error), so every definition is shown, the one people usually mean first. The message text is Windows' own, read from the event providers of Windows 10.0.26200.0, 2026-10-28; the notes are ours, based on Microsoft's security auditing reference.

Try: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 1074, 7045, 1102, 4104, 1149

The following service has repeatedly stopped responding to service control requests

Event 7046
Service Control Manager
System log
Information
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
The following service has repeatedly stopped responding to service control requests: …

Contact the service vendor or the system administrator about whether to disable this service until the problem is identified.

You may have to restart the computer in safe mode before you can disable the service.