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Killing a Windows service stuck in the STOP_PENDING state

Aug 8 2011 ยท Random

I ran into this issue when I attempted to restart the Windows Audio Endpoint Builder service under Windows Server 2008 R2. Thankfully I didn’t have to restart, as I found the solution here.

  1. Query the service to find the process id C:\Windows\system32>sc queryex AudioEndpointBuilder SERVICE_NAME: AudioEndpointBuilder
    TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
    STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
    (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
    WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
    SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
    CHECKPOINT : 0xbc
    WAIT_HINT : 0x1388
    PID : 1008
    FLAGS :
  2. Use Task Manager or taskkill to kill the process (/F flag is to force the kill, try without first). C:\Windows\system32>taskkill /PID 1008 /F
    SUCCESS: The process with PID 1008 has been terminated.

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