Stop hung service (stopping or starting status) without server reboot
Here is a solution to stop an hung service without server reboot. Here an hung service is a service in stopping or starting status. Step 1 : find the PID of the service using any way: Task manager sc queryex servicename tasklist /svc | findstr /i servicename Step 2: Kill the service by it's PID with taskkill /f command, syntax below: taskkill /f /pid pidoftheservice example: taskkill /f /pid 2320 This works for many cases :)