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acgbox
Asked: 2020-03-04 15:14:34 +0800 CST

how to stop, start and delete a windows service in cmd with a reference to the service name

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how to stop/start a windows service in cmd with just a fragment of the service name. Example:

NET STOP *part_of_name_of_service*
NET START *part_of_name_of_service*

For example. mysql has many versions of "the name of service". 

MySQL57
wampmysqld
etc, etc, etc

The idea is to stop/start any service that contains the word "mysql". Something like that:

net start *MySQL*

But unfortunately my attempt generates error: "The service name is not valid".

Attempts:

1.Dump service names to a file with the following command:

REG QUERY "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services" > services.txt
findstr /i /r "mysql" services.txt
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MySQL
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\wampmysqld64

but I could not complete the loop

2.With taskkill

call :winservices "*mysql*"

:: funcion winservices
@echo off
  goto:eof
  :winservices
  set winservices=%1
   taskkill /f /im "%winservices%" /t
  goto:eof

But "*mysql*" not works (only "mysql*" works)

The same happens when trying to delete the service:

sc delete *MySQL*

how I do this?

windows-service mysql windows-command-prompt

2 Answers

  1. Very simple with PowerShell:

    Stop-Service *mysql*

    Start-Service and Remove-Service work the same, the latter is only available from PowerShell 6 onwards.

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  2. Best Answer

    found a solution here (only for kill service)

    taskkill /FI "IMAGENAME eq httpd*" /T /F
taskkill /FI "IMAGENAME eq mysql*" /T /F
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