fxssvc.exe stopping

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This has started happening for the last several months after working fine for
over a year.

I go to send a fax and the dialog locks up, I check fxssvc.exe in services
and find it says "Stopping" but it is hung, and will not stop or start.

If I kill the fxssvc.exe task and start the service it will work.

But I am getting tired of having to do this everyday sometimes more than
once a day, I have uninstalled & reinstalled Fax several times.

PLEASE do not advise me to look at the "Trouble shooting sending & recieving
faxs in Winows XP" base article. It has nothing about this issue.

 

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Try reinstalling/updating your modem driver

John A

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:15:02 -0700, "Dsebring"
<Dsebring@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>This has started happening for the last several months after working fine for
>over a year.
>
>I go to send a fax and the dialog locks up, I check fxssvc.exe in services
>and find it says "Stopping" but it is hung, and will not stop or start.
>
>If I kill the fxssvc.exe task and start the service it will work.
>
>But I am getting tired of having to do this everyday sometimes more than
>once a day, I have uninstalled & reinstalled Fax several times.
>
>PLEASE do not advise me to look at the "Trouble shooting sending & recieving
>faxs in Winows XP" base article. It has nothing about this issue.

 

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No Go...

Re installed the Modem driver and rebooted, ran services.msc and found
fxssvc.exe in state "stopping", it is STUCK and can not be stopped or started
from this state, if I KILL the process in task mgr then I am able to start
fxssvc.exe in services.msc and all is well (usually) untill next reboot.

This is the pattern, reboot and something is interfering with fxssvc.exe...



"John A" wrote:

> Try reinstalling/updating your modem driver
>
> John A
>
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:15:02 -0700, "Dsebring"
> <Dsebring@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >This has started happening for the last several months after working fine for
> >over a year.
> >
> >I go to send a fax and the dialog locks up, I check fxssvc.exe in services
> >and find it says "Stopping" but it is hung, and will not stop or start.
> >
> >If I kill the fxssvc.exe task and start the service it will work.
> >
> >But I am getting tired of having to do this everyday sometimes more than
> >once a day, I have uninstalled & reinstalled Fax several times.
> >
> >PLEASE do not advise me to look at the "Trouble shooting sending & recieving
> >faxs in Winows XP" base article. It has nothing about this issue.
>
>

 

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Maybe an SP2 problem? Others with similar problem have found setting
Fax service to Manual Start fixes it.

Otherwise maybe a firewall issue?

John A

>No Go...
>
>Re installed the Modem driver and rebooted, ran services.msc and found
>fxssvc.exe in state "stopping", it is STUCK and can not be stopped or started
>from this state, if I KILL the process in task mgr then I am able to start
>fxssvc.exe in services.msc and all is well (usually) untill next reboot.
>
>This is the pattern, reboot and something is interfering with fxssvc.exe...
>
>
>
>"John A" wrote:
>
>> Try reinstalling/updating your modem driver
>>
>> John A
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:15:02 -0700, "Dsebring"
>> <Dsebring@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >This has started happening for the last several months after working fine for
>> >over a year.
>> >
>> >I go to send a fax and the dialog locks up, I check fxssvc.exe in services
>> >and find it says "Stopping" but it is hung, and will not stop or start.
>> >
>> >If I kill the fxssvc.exe task and start the service it will work.
>> >
>> >But I am getting tired of having to do this everyday sometimes more than
>> >once a day, I have uninstalled & reinstalled Fax several times.
>> >
>> >PLEASE do not advise me to look at the "Trouble shooting sending & recieving
>> >faxs in Winows XP" base article. It has nothing about this issue.
>>
>>

 

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Maybe...

In any event I have found at least 3 other threads with what sounds like the
same issue the fax service getting "stuck" at stopping.

That is making me lean more towards MS made a change with SP2, rather than
anything particular to my system, not conclusive just leaning towards...

There is also a different problem that is getting many more complaints
regarding an error message when trying to fax, I do not have that problem.

I will try setting to manual start and see if it helps.

Thanks

"John A" wrote:

> Maybe an SP2 problem? Others with similar problem have found setting
> Fax service to Manual Start fixes it.
>
> Otherwise maybe a firewall issue?
>
> John A
>
> >No Go...
> >
> >Re installed the Modem driver and rebooted, ran services.msc and found
> >fxssvc.exe in state "stopping", it is STUCK and can not be stopped or started
> >from this state, if I KILL the process in task mgr then I am able to start
> >fxssvc.exe in services.msc and all is well (usually) untill next reboot.
> >
> >This is the pattern, reboot and something is interfering with fxssvc.exe...
> >
> >
> >
> >"John A" wrote:
> >
> >> Try reinstalling/updating your modem driver
> >>
> >> John A
> >>
> >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:15:02 -0700, "Dsebring"
> >> <Dsebring@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >This has started happening for the last several months after working fine for
> >> >over a year.
> >> >
> >> >I go to send a fax and the dialog locks up, I check fxssvc.exe in services
> >> >and find it says "Stopping" but it is hung, and will not stop or start.
> >> >
> >> >If I kill the fxssvc.exe task and start the service it will work.
> >> >
> >> >But I am getting tired of having to do this everyday sometimes more than
> >> >once a day, I have uninstalled & reinstalled Fax several times.
> >> >
> >> >PLEASE do not advise me to look at the "Trouble shooting sending & recieving
> >> >faxs in Winows XP" base article. It has nothing about this issue.
> >>
> >>
>
>