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A hanged service looks like this (as you can see, all Start/Stop/Pause/Resume buttons are disabled):

To kill this service, first note the service name. On the screenshot above, it is ‘EntropySoftCFS’ (ie: the first thing displayed in the “General” tab).

Then, open a DOS shell and run the ‘sc queryex’ command to retrieve the service PID, then use the ‘taskkill’ command to… well, kill it !

C:\>sc queryex EntropySoftCFS

SERVICE_NAME: EntropySoftCFS

TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS

STATE              : 2  START_PENDING

(NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN))

WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)

SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)

CHECKPOINT         : 0x1

WAIT_HINT          : 0xbb8

PID                : 3756

FLAGS              :

C:\>taskkill /PID 3756 /F

SUCCESS: The process with PID 3756 has been terminated.

Thanks to The Skiing Cube for this article