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How to stop services that are stuck on “Starting” or “Stopping”

Posted on February 23, 2021 By rich No Comments on How to stop services that are stuck on “Starting” or “Stopping”

If task manager wont stop a service but you need to kill the process, use this method:
[In this example I’ll use the spooler service]

Open up an elevated command prompt and type:

sc queryex spooler

Note down the PID (Process ID). Here it’s 2672 but this will be different on every machine/session.

Next run the command:

taskkill /f /PID 2672

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