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Killing a Windows Service stuck in the 'Stopping' state

by Administrator 25. June 2010 22:48

Sometimes a service can hang/get stuck in the 'Stopping' state and you need to force it to stop.

I'm not saying its a good idea as it may have unforeseen repercusions but this can done as follows:

sc queryex "ServiceName". This gives you a PID for the process
Kill the process using the task manager

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