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Sunday, March 10, 2013

Service "stuck" in starting/stopping state. How to kill and start again!



Sometimes we all run into a service being stuck in a 'starting' or 'stopping' state. Using CMD you simply use below commands to kill the service.

1. Identify and get PID

sc queryex |more
Press <Enter>

Use space to move fast down to results (sorted by A-Z)

* If you know your reg name of the service the you can direclty run :
sc queryex servicename

Get the PID of the service!

2. Kill the service with taskkill command
taskkill /f /pid [PID]
Press <Enter>
This will force kill the service.

Extra Info:
1. Tasklist : Refer to Microsoft’s Help File
2. Taskkill : Similar to Tskill. Refer to Microsoft’s Help File.

* NOTE:
To view a process on a remote system:
tasklist.exe /S SYSTEM /U USERNAME /P PASSWORD

To kill a process on a remote system:
taskkill.exe/S SYSTEM /U USERNAME /P PASSWORD /IM PROCESS

ex. taskkill.exe /S PC1 /U SirX /P 123456 /IM iexplore.exe
    taskkill.exe /S PC1 /U SirX /P 123456 /PID 1976 /F

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