Question

I need to check if a Windows service is installed from a batch file. I can dip into something other than batch if I need to, but I would prefer not to. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

@echo off
SC QUERY ftpsvc > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1060 GOTO MISSING
ECHO EXISTS
GOTO END

:MISSING
ECHO SERVICE MISSING

:END

Note that the SC QUERY command queries by the short service name not the display name. You can find this name by looking at the General tab of a service’s properties in Service Manager.