We have had the same problems/experiense here. What we have done to solve the problem was to write a simple application that runs as service - it runs before CygWin Ipc Daemon and checks for existing .pid file. If it exists - delete it. You should register CygWin service to be dependent on this new one - and all should works fine.
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