Stop a hung service shuts down a non-responsive windows services

If you ever has trouble with a service being stuck in a ' starting ' or ' stopping ' state, you can run a couple of simple co Mmands to kill the service.

1.	query the process to kill the Service know its PID or Process ID. To find this just type the following with at a command prompt: sc queryex servicename  <enter> Rep Lace ' ServiceName ' with the Services registry name. For Example:print Spooler is Spooler.   C:\users\yemen_000>sc queryex mssql$sqlexpress service_name:mssql$sqlexpress Type:10 WIN32_OWN _process State:4 RUNNING (stoppable, pausable, Accepts_shutdown) win32_exit_code:0 (0x0) Service_exit_ code:0 (0x0) checkpoint:0x0 wait_hint:0x0 pid:2184 FLAGS:	&NBSP;
2.	Identify the PID After running the query, you'll by presented with a list of details. You'll want to locate the PID.
3.	Run the Taskkill command Now so you had the PID, you can run the following command to kill the hung process: taskkill/f/pid [PID] <Enter> This would force kill the hung service.