Occasionally you need to force stop a Windows service.  In order to do it follow these steps.\n \nOpen the command prompt by going to the start menu and typing CMD.  Don't just click on it but shift+right click on it to run as administrator.  Once that is complete type in the following command\nsc queryex MyService\nWhere you replace MyService with the name of the service you're trying to kill.\nYou will see a bunch of lines.  You're looking for one that looks like this.\nPID                : 3028\nOnce you have the PID you need to run this command\ntaskkill /F /PID 3028\n