How to kill hanged services in Windows

Not all the services you will be able to kill from Task Manager. Some services still run even though if you uninstall or disable them

A hanged service looks like the below screenshot example (as you can see below, all Start/Stop/Pause/Resume buttons are disabled):

To kill this service, first note the service name. On the screenshot above, it is ‘Business View Manager’ (ie: the first thing displayed in the “General” tab).

Then, open a command Prompt and run the ‘sc queryex’ command to retrieve the service PID, then use the ‘taskkill’ command to… well, kill it ! (as below)

C:\>sc queryex Business View Manager   SERVICE_NAME: Business View Manager TYPE               : 10  WIN32_OWN_PROCESS STATE              : 2  START_PENDING (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN))   WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0) SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0) CHECKPOINT         : 0x1 WAIT_HINT          : 0xbb8 PID                : 3756 FLAGS              :   C:\>taskkill /PID 3756 /F SUCCESS: The process with PID 3756 has been terminated. Note: Be careful of what you are killing though.  If you kill a critical windows service you may end up forcing the machine to reboot on it own.