If you have a service that is not responding or stuck in a certain state, follow the below steps to force stop the servicec
- Click the Start menu
- Click Run or in the search bar type services.msc
- Press Enter
- Select the service that is stuck and go to Properties and notedown its service name
- Once found, open a command prompt. Type sc queryex <servicename> (without brackets <> )
- Press Enter
- Note down the the PID
- In the same command prompt type taskkill /pid <pid number> /f
- Press Enter
- Now go back to services and right click and select start service to start it again
