How to make two shortcuts: Enable+Start service & Disable+Stop any windows service?

How do I enable/start and stop/disable the Windows Update Service from cmd?

You can do this using sc commands.

• Either assign the commands to a shortcut or add them to a batch file and assign the batch file to a shortcut.
• To do the same with any other service replace wuauserv with the service name.

Enable/Start:

sc config wuauserv start= auto & sc start wuauserv

Stop/Disable:

sc stop wuauserv & sc config wuauserv start= disabled

Example output:

> sc config wuauserv start= auto & sc start wuauserv
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: wuauserv
        TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
        STATE              : 2  START_PENDING
                                (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x0
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x7d0
        PID                : 1204
        FLAGS              :

> sc stop wuauserv & sc config wuauserv start= disabled

SERVICE_NAME: wuauserv
        TYPE               : 20  WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
        STATE              : 3  STOP_PENDING
                                (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
        WIN32_EXIT_CODE    : 0  (0x0)
        SERVICE_EXIT_CODE  : 0  (0x0)
        CHECKPOINT         : 0x1
        WAIT_HINT          : 0x7530
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS

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Further Reading

• An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line - An excellent reference for all things Windows cmd line related.
• sc - Service Control - Create, Start, Stop, Query or Delete any Windows SERVICE.