Starting and Stopping Services with sc.exe Command
Q
How to use sc.exe command to start and stop an existing service?
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A
If you want to start or stop a service, you
you can use the "start" or "stop" commanded offered by the sc.exe tool as shown in this tutorial.
Run sc.exe in a command window and do the following:
C:\>sc query dnscache
SERVICE_NAME: dnscache
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
C:\>sc stop dnscache
SERVICE_NAME: dnscache
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,...
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
C:\>sc start dnscache
SERVICE_NAME: dnscache
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 2 START_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,...
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x7d0
PID : 2640
FLAGS :
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