Killing a stuck process in Windows

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

service

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

 

 

 

 

 

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