CODEWITHSUNDEEP
windowswindows-services
kerkeslager
kerkeslager

Reputation: 1396

How does one find out if a Windows service is installed using (preferably) only batch?

I need to check if a Windows service is installed from a batch file. I can dip into something other than batch if I need to, but I would prefer not to. Is there any way to do this?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 52577

Answers (5)

James - built2order
James - built2order

Reputation: 61

Here is an example using sc query to verify if a windows service is installed and stop if found.

sc query | find /I "%tmpServiceName%" > nul
if not errorlevel 1 echo. && net stop %tmpServiceName%
if errorlevel 1 echo.   - Windows service %tmpServiceName% is not running or doesn't exist.

Upvotes: 0

Spangenhelm
Spangenhelm

Reputation: 51

what about:

sc interrogate "nameofyourservicehere"

I've found this really useful since tasklist won't give informations on whether the service is installed or not. (or i did not find how)

Upvotes: 5

M Sasan MH
M Sasan MH

Reputation: 141

You should using "query", not "Stop" or something else command, the "Stop" can stop your service if it's exist, then this is not the right way.

@echo OFF

set _ServiceName=SomeServiceName

sc query %_ServiceName% | find "does not exist" >nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 0 echo Service Does Not Exist.
if %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 1 echo Service Exist.

Upvotes: 14

Kev
Kev

Reputation: 119816

Try this:

@echo off
SC QUERY ftpsvc > NUL
IF ERRORLEVEL 1060 GOTO MISSING
ECHO EXISTS
GOTO END

:MISSING
ECHO SERVICE MISSING

:END

Note that the SC QUERY command queries by the short service name not the display name. You can find this name by looking at the General tab of a service's properties in Service Manager.

Upvotes: 68

Chris Kooken
Chris Kooken

Reputation: 33880

you can run "net stop [servicename]" if it fails with "the service name is invalid" the service isn't installed

Upvotes: -12

Related Questions