stop a stop_pending service

[Dave]

Hi

How can I stop a "stop_pending" service.
I'm in the middle of a migration of a client for antivirus (MCAfee frameworkService)
I need to stop the service first before I can upgrade it but I have a problem on some stations
when I tru to stop the service it hangs on the status "STOP_PENDING"
How can I force this service to stop if it returns the "STOP_PENDING" state?

NOTE:
some of the stations are unreachable I have to do this remotely
(currently I'm using the SC command and Remote Task Manager to do this remotely)

thx in advance

 

[Guest]

Yuo can try the PSKILL utility from Sysinternals.
May work .....

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml

Regards,

TimH

 

[Dave]

I already tried PSKILL without succes
I even tried to kill the process with Remote Task Manager also without succes

any other ideas?