Docker is always show "Docker Engine starting..."

Just close docker desktop app and then open it up again, it will run normally again

Had the same issue running Docker Desktop 3.2.2.

Fixed by downloading Docker Desktop 3.3.0 (https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/release-notes/)

In some cases the following method works:

1. open cmd as admin

2. enter net stop winnat

3. start or restart docker desktop

4. enter net start winnat

Here is my solution.

Run the following two lines of commands inside PowerShell.
First Exit docker hub desktop, then run these commands in PowerShell:

wsl --unregister docker-desktop
wsl --unregister docker-desktop-data

Note: It should be noted that this removes all docker containers and data. (WLS: Unregisters the distribution and deletes the root filesystem.)

Suddennly i opened my laptop and started Docker, it was displaying only "Docker desktop starting" and stuck here for long time. I tried to delete settings.json(auto created on starting docker again) at \AppData\Roaming\Docker but nothing worked. So, i simply restarted my laptop undoing all changes, and this time after few mins Docker desktop started successfully.

When I check, I was using the latest version so downgrade the Desktop version 4 to version 3.

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/previous-versions/3.x-windows/

summary - Try with a different version other than the latest one.

Hope this helps !!!

Rebooting fixed the issue for me.