Question

Is there any way to enable and disable a windows service using batch files.
I am talking of changing the startup type of the services i.e. enabling and disabling and not starting and stopping using Net Start and Net Stop commands.

Answer 1

sc config <service_name> start= disabled

This command has a number of functions but one is to determine the status of a service at system startup. A service can be set to run automatically, manually or not at all. The commands are

sc config ServiceName start= flag

Here ServiceName is the name of the service and flag has one of the values auto, demand. or disabled . For example, to set a service to run manually the command is

sc config ServiceName start= demand

Note that there must be a space after the equals sign. The correct value for the parameter ServiceName may not always be obvious and the next command can be used to find it for all services.