Windows Administrator Basics: Managing Services from Command Line

This is the second article for Windows Services. You can access previous article Windows Services Basics here.

Managing Windows services from command line

Net Command: You can use NET START and NET STOP command to start and stop Windows service.

Using Net command to start a Windows Service

NET START   < ServiceName >

Using Net command to stop a Windows Service

NET STOP < Service Name >

SC (Service Control) Command : SC.exe is a powerful command line tool to manage Windows Services. This can be used to Query, Start,Stop,Create or Delete a Windows service. This tool can manage the services on remote computer as well. In this article, we are going to explore Query , start and stop options only.

Query Service status of specific service on Local machine

SC QUERY < Service Name >

Query Service status of specific service on Remote machine

SC < \\Computer Name > QUERY < Service Name >

Query Service status of all services on local machine

SC QUERY 

Stop a Service on local machine

SC STOP < Service Name >

Start a Service on local machine

SC START < Service Name >

Start a service on Remote machine

SC < \\Computer Name > START < Service Name >

Stop a service on Remote machine

SC < \\Computer Name > STOP < Service Name >

Please see our next article Managing Windows Services from PowerShell to know more about managing Windows services from Powershell.

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Managing Windows Services from Command Line (This article)

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