I have created a windows service and in the service in control panel -> administrative tools -> services, its status is starting.
I want to stop this service, but the stop option is grayed out. How can I start/stop the service?
Every time I restart, then it becomes stopped and I can delete it.
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The answer is
sc queryex <service name>
taskkill /F /PID <Service PID>
eg
If the stop option is greyed out then your service did not indicate that it was accepting SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP when it last called SetServiceStatus. If you're using .NET, then you need to set the CanStop property in ServiceBase.
Of course, if you're accepting stop requests, then you'd better make sure that your service can safely handle those requests, especially if your service is still progressing through its startup code.
As Aaron mentioned above, some services do not accept SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP messages, by the time it was developed. And that is hard coded into the executable. Period. A workaroud would be not to have it started, and as you cannot change its properties, forcibly do the following:
- Boot into safe mode (Windows 10 users might need msconfig > boot > safe boot)
- Regedit into HKLM > System > ControlSet001 > Services
- Locate your service entry
- Change 'Start' key to 3 (manual startup) or 4 (disabled)
If you cannot change the entry, right-click on your service name on the left pane, select 'Permissions', check that 'Everyone' has full access and try step 4 again.
Don't forget to disable safe boot from msconfig again, and reboot !
Open command prompt with admin access and type the following commands there .
a)
tasklist
it displays list of all available services . There you can see the service you want to stop/start/restart . Remember PID value of the service you want to force stop.
b) Now type
taskkill /f /PID [PID value of the service]
and press enter. On success you will get the message “SUCCESS: The process with PID has been terminated”.
Ex : taskkill /f /PID 5088
This will forcibly kill the frozen service. You can now return to Server Manager and restart the service.
I solved the problem with the following steps:
Open "services.msc" from command / Windows RUN.
Find the service (which is greyed out).
Double click on that service and go to the "Recovery" tab.
Ensure that
- First Failure action is selected as "Take No action".
- Second Failure action is selected as "Take No action".
- Subsequent Failures action is selected as "Take No action".
and Press OK.
Now, the service will not try to restart and you can able to delete the greyed out service from services list (i.e. greyed out will be gone).
Use the Task manager to find the Service and kill it from there using End Task. Always does the trick for me.
If you have made the service yourself, consider removing Long running operations from the OnStart event, usually that is what causes the Service to be non responsive.
You could do it in one line (useful for ci-environments):
taskkill /fi "Services eq SERVICE_NAME" /F
Filter -> Services -> ServiceName equals SERVICE_NAMES -> Force
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