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force stopping the WSL service Windows

Open Command Prompt and run the command to terminate the wslservice.exe process.

taskkill /f /im wslservice.exe

Note: `wslservice.exe` is associated with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which Docker Desktop uses when running in WSL 2 mode. When you run Docker Desktop and have it configured to use the WSL 2 backend, it relies on WSL services to manage Linux containers. Therefore, stopping wslservice.exe can disrupt Docker Desktop's functionality.

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