Poking around services using commands
Important Note! These commands for Windows Services work if you run Command Prompt as Administrator.
List all services
SC QUERY state=all > "C:\Temp\Services.txt"
This will drop a text file (because you’re likely to have more information than your command buffer) into the temp folder for your perusal.
Start / stop a service
Start a service…
SC START YourServiceName
Stop a service…
SC STOP YourServiceName
Delete a service
This deletes the service…
SC DELETE YourServiceName
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