Stop a service and wait for it to stop

 

@echo off

:: echo without NewLine

 <nul set /p =Please wait. Stopping Service...

 :: request stop service

sc stop "service we need to stop" >nul

:: wait up to 30 seconds for the service to stop

set a=1

set tmout=30

:retry

:: is it stopped ?

sc query "service we need to stop" | find "STOPPED"

if errorlevel 1 (

:: echo dots on the same line

 <nul set /p =.

 timeout 1 /nobreak >nul

 set /a a += 1

if %%a%% lss %%tmout%%  goto retry

)

:: allow one second to see the messages

timeout 1 /nobreak >nul