I've had this issue when uninstalling SAS 9.4 on desktop pc. I renamed sashost.dll and was able to delete it. Not sure why I was able to renamed but this worked for me. ... View more

In our case, when we restart the services, not only we respect an order but we monitor the CPU and wait till it goes back to an acceptable level before starting the next service. It takes about 25 min to complete.   ... View more