How to kill hung Windows Services

Have you ever been in a situation where you have a hung Windows Service and you cannot restart the server because it is a production server?

Well, with these steps below you can kill that hung Windows Service without a need to restart the server.



1. First, lets find out what the name of the hung service. by double clicking on it.

2. Open a command prompt with Administrative right and run sc queryex <service name>

3. Run taskkill /PID <Service PID> /F