[zvrba]

> Perhaps they wanted the service killable, but for it to always restart?

Then you use a DACL than gives only PROCESS_TERMINATE permission [1] to the desired group (Administrators, Users, …). If killed, service control manager will figure out that the program exited abnormally and restart it.

[1] Overview of all permissions on process objects that can be allowed or denied in a DACL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/ProcThread/...

[monocasa]

That doesn't kill dead locked processes, or processes that aren't listening on the management IF. You see this with services that can't be "sc stop"ed.