Stopping WinXP Services

[pharma]

does anyone knows how to force a service to stop? i know the services.msc i want to know how to turn off services that windows that does not allow to stop or even pause. i want to do it in MSDos. net services in particular.

[oracleguy]

you can from the command line use "net start" and "net stop" to start/stop services however if the service is a vital system service, I'm pretty sure it still isn't going to let you shut it down. I don't know why you'd ever want to either.