I have to update the windows service.exe and related dll by using console on remote computer. I tried net start <servicename> but it not allowed to query or issue command on the remote computer. then I tried sc & PsService from SysInternals. sc \\<ServerName> stop <ServiceName> PsService \\<ServerName> stop <ServiceName> the problem is both of them issue stop command and returned the control but I want to sure that service is stopped completely so that I can update ......