Issue
When I try to go to $JENKINS_URL/restart to restart my instance, it just hangs when trying to come back up. So I have to manually restart the service
Resolution
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Ensure that your Jenkins user has the permissions to restart the Windows Jenkins service
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Go into your jenkins.xml inside of $JENKINS_HOME and look for the
<id>
and<name>
tags. Those should match the name of your Service running Jenkins. If they do not, adjust the jenkins.xml file and re-save it