Sc.exe - Windows 2000 Resource Kit Utility

This tool provides a way to communicate with Service Controller (Services.exe) from the command prompt to retrieve and set information about services. Service Controller Tool is useful for testing and debugging your service programs. SC implements calls to all of the Windows 2000 service control functions. You can specify any function parameters through the command line. You can create batch files that call SC with various command lines to see how your service behaves with repeated starting and stopping.