Force kill a service and restart it with powershell in a batch script

Just replace the TermService and ‘Remote Desktop Services’ with the service name you wish to force kill and restart it.

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FOR /F “tokens=3” %%A IN (‘sc queryex TermService ^| findstr PID’) DO (SET pid=%%A)

taskkill /F /PID %pid%

sleep 10

powershell -Command “& {Start-Service -displayname ‘Remote Desktop Services’}”
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