Killing a Windows service stuck in the STOP_PENDING state

Killing a Windows service stuck in the STOP_PENDING state


I ran into this issue when I attempted to restart the AdaptiveLogExporterService


Find below the steps to kill and restart pending service.


Example

C:\sc queryex AdaptiveLogExporterService



SERVICE_NAME: AdaptiveLogExporterService

TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS

STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING

(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN))

WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)

SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)

CHECKPOINT : 0x2

WAIT_HINT : 0x1388

PID : 1124

FLAGS :

C:\taskkill /PID 1124 /F

SUCCESS: The process with PID 1124 has been terminated.

C:\sc start AdaptiveLogExporterService



SERVICE_NAME: AdaptiveLogExporterService

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 : 0x0

WAIT_HINT : 0x1388

PID : 4228

FLAGS :





SERVICE_NAME: AdaptiveLogExporterService

TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS

STATE : 4 RUNNING

(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN))

WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)

SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)

CHECKPOINT : 0x0