Windows server 2008 force a service to stop

Improve this answer. HopelessN00b HopelessN00b 53k 31 31 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Sadly too late to examine these processes in WinDbg, the infrastructure guys have rebooted the server. But handy to know for next time. The other problem was that we couldn't live with it like this.

I couldn't even get a fresh service exe to run and respond to polling requests, I think because these zombied processes were still hanging onto port which it listens on could certainly see one of them still holding onto the port in TCPView and I couldn't close it.

Well, that's certainly a very good reason not to live with it. If it happens again, don't forget another one of Mark Russinovich's babies - Process Monitor. Point procmon at the process to see what it's doing. Wonderful tool. SimonCatlin - aye, I did that too but nothing really jumped out at me.

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Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. Thank you. The Stop-Service cmdlet sends a stop message to the Windows Service Controller for each of the specified services. You can specify the services by their service names or display names, or you can use the InputObject parameter to pass a service object that represents the service that you want to stop.

This command stops the Telnet service on the local computer. The command uses Get-Service to get an object that represents the Telnet service. The pipeline operator pipes the object to Stop-Service , which stops the service.

This example stops the IISAdmin service on the local computer. Because stopping this service also stops the services that depend on the IISAdmin service, it is best to precede Stop-Service with a command that lists the services that depend on the IISAdmin service.

The first command lists the services that depend on IISAdmin. The pipeline operator passes the result to the Format-List cmdlet. The command uses the Property parameter of Format-List to list only the Name and DependentServices properties of the service. The second command stops the IISAdmin service. The Force parameter is required to stop a service that has dependent services. The command uses the Confirm parameter to request confirmation from the user before it stops each service.

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