How to make two shortcuts: Enable+Start service & Disable+Stop any windows service?

But at this time I need only shortcuts for windows update service. I don't keep windows update service running all time but windows store needs windows update service running. I want to enable+start windows update service before opening windows store with shortcut and disable+stop windows update service after closing windows store.

I found some good answers to restart a service here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1995847/desktop-shortcut-to-restart-a-windows-service

Any help will be useful for me and people with same need.

WORKED FOR ME: (windows 10)

I created two text files & paste those one line code in each (see accepted answer)

I changed those files extension to .bat

I created 2 shortcuts for both files

I edited those 2 shortcuts to run as admin, > right click on shortcut > click "properties" > go to "shortcut" tab > click "advanced" > tick "run as administrator" > OK > OK

INFO: to get any service name. Go to "services" > right click any service > properties > see service name.

Answer

How do I enable/start and stop/disable the Windows Update Service from cmd?

You can do this using sc commands.

• Either assign the commands to a shortcut or add them to a batch file and assign the batch file to a shortcut.


• To do the same with any other service replace wuauserv with the service name.

Enable/Start:

sc config wuauserv start= auto & sc start wuauserv

Stop/Disable:

sc stop wuauserv & sc config wuauserv start= disabled

Example output:

> sc config wuauserv start= auto & sc start wuauserv
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: wuauserv

        TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
        STATE              : 2  START_PENDING
                                (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x7d0
        PID                : 1204
        FLAGS              :


> sc stop wuauserv & sc config wuauserv start= disabled

SERVICE_NAME: wuauserv
        TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
        STATE              : 3  STOP_PENDING
                                (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x1
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x7530

[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

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