Kill a windows service using its Service Name

Question

I am looking for a way to kill a windows services using its service name rather than the process name, or PID. The two obvious choices are pskill or taskkill, but I cannot seem to find a way of using either of these methods to kill the service by name.

Is it possible to do it by the service name? If so, is anyone able to provide a quick example?

Answer 1

You can use taskkill to filter by service name and kill the service you're looking for.

taskkill /F /FI "SERVICES eq yourservice"