Stopping a windows service when the stop option is grayed out

Question

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

User · Answer

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.

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

sc queryex  lt service name gt  taskkill  F  PID  lt Service PID gt    eg

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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

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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

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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

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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  Source  https   technet microsoft com en-us library bb491009 aspx

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If you run the command   sc queryex  lt service name gt    where  is the the name of the service  not the display name  spooler  not Print Spooler   at the cmd prompt it will return the PID of the process the service is running as   Take that PID and run  taskkill  F  PID  lt Service PID gt    to force the PID to stop   Sometimes if the process hangs while stopping the GUI won t let you do anything with the service

[windows-services] Stopping a windows service when the stop option is grayed out

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