Windows command to get service status?

Question

I need to know the status of a service at the end of my batch script which restarts services using \"net stop thingie\" and \"net start thingie\".

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Answer 1

You can call net start "service name" on your service. If it's not started, it'll start it and return errorlevel=0, if it's already started it'll return errorlevel=2.