{"id":2775,"date":"2015-03-25T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T21:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2020-06-18T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T21:53:29","slug":"how-to-kill-a-windows-service-stuck-on-stopping-or-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/how-to-kill-a-windows-service-stuck-on-stopping-or-starting\/","title":{"rendered":"How to kill a Windows service stuck on stopping or starting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"OSBox\" class=\"snippetBox\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Windows_logo.png\" alt=\"Windows_logo\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/>Windows<\/div>\n<p>If a Windows service is hung, such as the <a title=\"Running the Service Manager as a Service\" href=\"\/support\/running-the-service-manager-as-a-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eFORMz Service Manager<\/a>, launch a command prompt. Determine the PID by typing the following:<\/p>\n<pre>sc queryex servicename<\/pre>\n<p>Next, issue the taskkill command from a\u00a0Command Prompt:<\/p>\n<pre>taskkill \/f \/pid [PID]<\/pre>\n<p>An example of killing the eFORMz Service Manager is shown in the following image:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2776\" src=\"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill.png\" alt=\"windows_kill\" width=\"743\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill.png 743w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill-250x152.png 250w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill-550x334.png 550w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill-297x180.png 297w, https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/windows_kill-494x300.png 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows If a Windows service is hung, such as the eFORMz Service Manager, launch a command prompt. Determine the PID by typing the following: sc queryex servicename Next, issue the taskkill command from a\u00a0Command Prompt: taskkill \/f \/pid [PID] An example of killing the eFORMz Service Manager is shown in the following image:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c002.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}