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Service Not Stopping

Asked by: davidsanderson

I'm trying to stop a service in Windows 2000 and all it says for status is "Stopping" and has been for hours. Is there a way to force it to stop? I've tried "net stop" and it said "The service could not be controlled in its present state." Any other way? I need to avoid rebooting the server.

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2003-10-06 at 14:20:59ID20758735
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by: MetsysNimdaPosted on 2003-10-06 at 14:43:26ID: 9501430

Download PSTools.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml
you will find a number of useful utilities in this FREEWARE suite.
Most notably to your advantage will be the Psservice and the pskill commands
the psservice can be used as follows:
psservice stop service
The best part about these utilites is that (administrators) can use them across the network also, so you don't have to go to the server to restart the services that are acting up on them. There is also a find feature, and they all work really well in batch files.
If the psservice command doesn't work. do a pslist, find out the process ID (pid) and kill it with the pskill command. If you need any more help with the command useage, tell me the name of the service and i will give you the specifics on stopping it.

 

by: dimantePosted on 2003-10-06 at 17:25:48ID: 9502250

what service is it???
From the command line you can use
net stop <service>

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by: spazz45Posted on 2003-10-06 at 17:52:22ID: 9502393

kill command is available from the resorce kit

 

by: coolmarine24Posted on 2003-10-07 at 07:39:15ID: 9506092

go to "control panel" then choose "administrative tools" then choose "servcices". in the services window find the service that you are asking about and in the "startup type" option choose "disable

 

by: eclathPosted on 2009-01-27 at 11:25:09ID: 23480027

Sysinternals has since been purchased by Microsoft, and the link referenced above has moved. Search the Microsoft page for pstools or go directly to http://www.sysinternals.com which redirects to Microsoft's web page. As of this writing the download is available from the following location : http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PsTools.zip

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