Enabling disabled service from command prompt?

[xtranophilist]

Is it possible to enable or start a disabled local windows service from command prompt in Windows XP?

[CoffeeFiend]

To set a service's startup type, use sc.exe (one of the many underrated built-in tools):

sc config servicename start= auto

(don't forget the space after the equal sign)

That's assuming you want it set to auto, for manual, use "demand" instead of "auto"

As for starting a service, there's 2 common ways:

net start servicename

or

sc start servicename

Such things are also very easily scripted (especially using PowerShell), and there's tons of 3rd party utils for this kind of stuff too

[xtranophilist]

thanks never knew of the sc command.

had to use services.msc MMC to configure the service startup type