How to manually force stop a service in windows

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