BlueStacks freezes on startup screen: How to solve it

  A few months ago I started using BlueStacks, an Android app player for PC (and MAC). It's like having your smartphone/tablet inside your computer. You can play games, install apps, send whatsapp, viber, boxer... messages. It's kind of cool. Nevertheless I have found myself with the startup screen freezing a few times, and nothing seemed to fix the problem (yes I know, there the "Restart Bluestacks" option in the system tray but that didn't work either). The only fix seemed to be restarting the computer.

   The first three times it happened I was like "ok, no problem...", but from the 20th time and on, it became really annoying. So I did some research and put together the solutions for you guys. This is what happens:

The Bluestacks service freezed; we need to terminate it. In order to do that you need the service PID. Go to the Start menu/Accessories and click it. 

1. Open the Task Manager.
2. Go to the "Services" tab.
3. Search for BstHdAndroidSvc or BlueStacks Android Service.
4. Look for the PID column (if you can't find it, inside the Task Manager go to "View/Select Columns", select PID and apply).
5. Now, keep the Task Manager open or remember that number.
6. Go to the Start menu/Accessories and right click "Command Prompt", then click "Run as administrator"
7. A black background window opens.
8. Type in the following: 
        taskkill /f /pid ####   (where "####" is the PID of the BlueStacks service)
9. A message will appear telling you the service was succesfully terminated.
10. We're done. 
11. Go and re-start BlueStacks.

Hope you've found this helpful, and thank you for reading!