How to kill a stuck service

How to kill a stuck service in Win 2003 server

Symptoms:
     1.   service will not stop.
     2.   service is hung.

Resolution:

1. In Server Manager, find the stuck service and double click it. Make note of the service's short name
2. Go to the command prompt sc queryex servicename .   Put in the name of the service you are trying to stop
3. From the results of this query, write down the PID.
4. Type in this command >taskkill /f /PID XXXX the x is where you will enter the PID you wrote down.