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United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. Hi all, This is a general question. How do you deal with such situations? Thursday, May 31, AM. You can stop a hung service more elegantly without manually checking the PID of the service process.

You can kill a specific service with the command:. Or you can skip the service name at all and killing all services in a hung state with the command:. You can also use the taskkill utility to force stop the hang services on a remote computer:. You can also use PowerShell to force the service to stop. Using the following command, you can get a list of services in the Stopping state:. The Stop-Process cmdlet allows terminating the processes of all found services.

The following PowerShell script will terminate all stuck service processes on Windows:. To stop such a process service , you need to grant permissions to the service process to the local Administrators group and then kill them. Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Module: Microsoft. Prompts you for confirmation before running the cmdlet. Specifies the display names of the services to stop. Forces the cmdlet to stop a service even if that service has dependent services.

Specifies the service names of the services to stop. Indicates that this cmdlet uses the no wait option. Shows what would happen if the cmdlet runs. The cmdlet is not run. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi MG. I'll give you everything possible for fixing Windows Updates, so that at least something will work before you work through them all.

Try running that first.