Windows 10 Need assistance stopping a Window Service (access is denied)

[William Johnston]

Hello,

Even though I have administrator privledges for my account, I cannot stop a Windows Service (an anti-virus service) getting an "Access is denied" error.

I seem to be having other permission errors for different programs.

Again, the account is adminstrator.

Any suggestions?

williamj

 

[Neemobeer]

Are you going through the services.msc console to stop it? Also with AV suites they may prevent stopping the service.

 

[Neemobeer]

If you are going through the services.msc console and it is not working, do the following.

• Open a command prompt and type sc query this will list all services
• Locate the target service by the "Display Name" field and make note of the "Service Name"
• Then type sc sdshow <servicename>
• Copy and paste the funny looking string it prints.

• (Ex: D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;IU)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;SU)_