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
SERVICE_NAME: vboxdrv
TYPE : 1 KERNEL_DRIVER
STATUS : 3 STOP_PENDING
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
COD_SALIDA_WIN32 : 0 (0x0)
COD_SALIDA_SERVICIO: 0 (0x0)
PUNTO_COMPROB. : 0x0
INDICACION_INICIO : 0x0
PID : 0
MARCAS :
(I translated the most important words from Spanish)
Because no PID is shown, I cannot kill the process with taskkill
. Tried with psexec -s
to run the commands with local system privileges, same result.
So far, any time this service hangs up (which lately has been very frequently) then I'm forced to restart my PC
I'm using Win7 Pro-64 bits