Stop/Start Service - Handling STOP_PENDING and START_PENDING

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How do you make your stop/start service scripts gracefully handling the services that get stuck in STOP_PENDING or START_PENDING...

Related with SC STOP and START. Stop and Start a service via batch or cmd file?

I have one aproach in mind, but I don't like it.

João · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-13T00:17:57.593

This is the way i'm approaching the stop.

Stop: sc %host% stop %service% || ECHO ERROR! && EXIT -1
Loop waiting for state to be STOPPED. Loop with a maximum number of iterations (e.g. 30). Testing if service is stopped (e.g. sc %host% query %service% | find /i "STOPPED"). Wait some seconds in each iteration (e.g. 10). Reaching the maximum iterations, try to kill the process using taskkill (e.g. work the output of sc queryex Alerter | find /i "PID").

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '18 at 09:55

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First open service.msc, in the properties dialog for your targeted service go to the Recovery Tab *(run -> services.msc -> right-click Target-Service -> Properties -> Recovery tab*)

Make sure the First\Second\Subsequent failures are all set to : Take No Action.

Get the PID of your target service using: sc queryex ServiceName:

Kill the process using taskkill /f /pid your_PID_number

answered Jul 02 '18 at 09:55

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Best answer so far. This one will always work, no matter what. – Akito Nov 02 '20 at 00:39
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how do you kill tasks that are in STOP_PENDING state and have PID Number 0? – madduci Jan 11 '22 at 08:51
@Akito except when no PID is returned like in my case – Blaisem Jul 15 '22 at 13:31

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 23 '17 at 15:31

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For me sometimes a 'Windows service' is hanging when I have the window services.msc open. I can't kill the process, neither use net stop or sc stop.

But when I close the services.msc window, the service immediately stops.

answered May 23 '17 at 15:31

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Stop/Start Service - Handling STOP_PENDING and START_PENDING

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