How to Kill & Start Windows Service Stuck in status “Starting” or “Stopping”

In Windows service, you found that there’s a service stuck with status “Starting” or “Stopping”.

Solution

Execute below command to find the PID of the service name.

sc queryex [SERVICE-NAME]

### Example ###
sc queryex ITSITI

Capture the PID.

SERVICE_NAME: ITSITI
        TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
        STATE              : 2  START_PENDING
                                (STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x0
        PID                : 1632
        FLAGS              :

Kill the PID.

taskkill /f /pid 1632
SUCCESS: The process with PID 1632 has been terminated.

You can try to restart the Windows service again.

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