How to restart service using command prompt

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I want to restart Windows service using command prompt in  Icons  section using Inno Setup  Please help me to solve the problem

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You can use sc start  service  to start a service and sc stop  service  to stop it  With some services net start  service  is doing the same   But if you want to use it in the same batch  be aware that sc stop won t wait for the service to be stopped  In this case you have to use net stop  service  followed by net start  service   This will be executed synchronously

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PowerShell features a Restart-Service cmdlet  which either starts or restarts the service as appropriate   The Restart-Service cmdlet sends a stop message and then a start message to the Windows Service Controller for a specified service  If a service was already stopped  it is started without notifying you of an error  You can specify the services by their service names or display names  or you can use the InputObject parameter to pass an object that represents each service that you want to restart   It is a little more foolproof than running two separate commands  The easiest way to use it just pass either the service name or the display name directly  Restart-Service  Service Name   It can be used directly from the standard cmd prompt with a command like  powershell -command  quot Restart-Service  Service Name  quot

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You can start and stop and query services using the SC command   As for innosetup i m not sure

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This is my code  to start stop a Windows service using SC command  If the service fails to start stop  it will print a log info  You can try it by Inno Setup       start a service   Exec ExpandConstant   cmd       C sc start ServiceName            SW HIDE  ewWaitUntilTerminated  ResultCode   Log  sc start ServiceName   SysErrorMessage ResultCode          stop a service   Exec ExpandConstant   cmd       C sc stop ServiceName            SW HIDE  ewWaitUntilTerminated  ResultCode   Log  sc stop ServiceName   SysErrorMessage ResultCode

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net exe stop  servicename   amp  amp  net exe start  servicename

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You could create a  bat-file with following content   net stop  my service name  net start  my service name

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To restart a running service   net stop  service name   amp  amp  net start  service name    However  if you don t know if the service is running in the first place and want to restart or start it  use this   net stop  service name   amp  net start  service name    This works if the service is already running or not   For reference  here is the documentation on conditional processing symbols

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