This will allow you to restart the service. Note: By forcing a service to stop you can also use these instructions to Kill a Windows Service which is stuck at starting as well. If you kill a critical windows service you may end up forcing the machine to reboot on it own. SUCCESS: The process with PID XXXX has been terminated.īe careful of what you are killing though. I selected the 'Remove files and clean the drive' selection and then once that was completed, Ive restarted my computer to initiate the reset process.

Please try to run SFC and DISM to check for any system errors and corrupted files. If there's no activity, please try to Press the Power button for 5-10 seconds until the computer shutdown or restart your PC. If it is successful you should receive the following message: Method 1: Repairing the System using a Bootable USB Flash Drive or Disk Method 2: Waiting it Out Method 3: Disabling your Internet Connection Method 4: Changing your BIOS Settings Method 5: Reinstalling Windows 10 According to Microsoft, Windows 10 has around 400 million active users to date, making it four times more popular than Mac. Kindly try to wait an hour or two and make sure the hard disk icon on your computer is blinking, indicating activity.

(where servicename is the name of the service you obtained from Step 1.) Open an elevated command prompt and type in: However, I realized that many of my old programs from Windows 7 are not compatible, so today I decided to finally do a fresh install of Windows. To do this, go in to services and double click on the service which has stuck. 1 Resetting this PC stuck on 2 I downloaded Windows 10 on July 29th, and decided to upgrade instead of doing a fresh install of Windows 10. Sometimes as an IT Support administrator you may need to kill a service which is stuck at stopping in order to avoid having to reboot a server in the middle of the day.

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