How can I enable or disable a windows service in .NET?

Question

How can I enable or disable a windows service in .NET? What do I have to know: its name or some kind of its id? In particular, in Windows 10.

Answer 1

You can enable or disable it by its name like

sc config <your_service_name> start= disabled

However if you are looking for a programmatic way then you can try this:

    using (var m = new ManagementObject($"Win32_Service.Name=\"{serviceName}\""))
    {
        m.InvokeMethod("ChangeStartMode", new object[] { "Automatic" });
    }

Please check ChangeStartMode method of the Win32_Service class