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The question is while restarting the windows service whether windows kills the service or it waits for the process to finish. As i remember in linux the “restart” command will kill all the child process.
Thanks in advance. I searched the question in this forum but didn’t find.
Restarting a service is just shorthand for ‘stop service and start service.’ So, the service gets a chance to shut down normally and then it gets a chance to start up normally.
You can see this by restarting a service in the Services MMC snap-in. I tried this on Windows 7 and the sequence UI went like this:
Windows is attempting to stop the following service on Local Computer
followed by
Windows is attempting to start the following service on Local Computer