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Force a Windows service to restart

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202611208 views
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Problem

I'm having problems trying to restart a Windows service (VBoxDrv, a VirtualBox driver) net stop VBoxDrv doesn't work (service starting or stopping error) sc queryex vboxdrv displays something like (I translated the most important words from Spanish) Because no PID is shown, I cannot kill the proces…

Error Output

SERVICE_NAME: vboxdrv 
        TYPE               : 1  KERNEL_DRIVER  
        STATUS             : 3  STOP_PENDING 
                                …

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Fix for: Force a Windows service to restart

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That isn't a regular Windows Service, it's a kernel mode driver. Unfortunately these drivers run outside of the User space (in kernel space) and basically you (as a user) can't force it to do anything (at least without a reboot, or some other extern…

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