Killing a Windows service that’s stuck on stopping or starting

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If you ever have trouble with a service being stuck in a ‘starting’ or ‘stopping’ state, you can run a couple of simple commands to kill the service.

–First query the process to find it’s PID:

sc queryex |more

–Kill the process:

taskkill /f /pid 3386
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