Wednesday, April 6, 2016

KILLING A WINDOWS SERVICE THAT IS KEEP ON "STOPPING"




Find out the Service Name

To do this, go in to services and double click on the service which has stuck.  Make a note of the “Service Name”.

Find out the PID of the service

Open an elevated command prompt and type in:
sc queryex servicename
(where servicename is the name of the service you obtained from Step 1.)
Make note of the PID

Kill the PID

From the same command prompt type in:
taskkill /f /pid [PID]
Where [PID] is the service number.
If it is successful you should receive the following message:
SUCCESS: The process with PID XXXX has been terminated.