If that doesn’t work, then you don’t have permission to grant yourself rights to the service. In the Service Security Settings window, select (or add) your account in the top pane and grant yourself the appropriate rights in the lower pane:Ĭlick OK to record your settings and Done to exit Service Security Editor Select your service from the list and click Open
#CMD ACCESS IS DENIED FREE#
An administrator must grant you that right.Īre you an administrator? Maybe you can give yourself the right to stop the service! Our free Service Security Editor should be able to help.ĭownload Service Security Editor and save it to a known location Grant yourself permission to stop/start the serviceĭoes the error still occur when you run NET from an elevated prompt? If so, it means that your Windows account does not have permission to stop the service. Move on to the next recommendation if the problem persists. Try stopping your service with NET.EXE from there.
#CMD ACCESS IS DENIED FULL#
The window’s caption should contain the word “Administrator” (which indicates that it is running with full admin rights). The elevated command prompt will appear on your desktop. You may be prompted to confirm that you want to run as an administrator. Right-click that entry and choose Run as administrator: To start an elevated command prompt (instructions for Windows 10):Īn entry for the “Command Prompt” desktop app should appear in the list of results. This policy - called User Account Control (UAC) - is an important security measure that protects your computer from viruses and other malicious activity.īecause of UAC, you must explicitly indicate whenever you want to run an elevated command prompt - one with enough administrative rights to stop a Windows Service. You see, Windows typically starts the command prompt (and other applications) without administrative rights - even if you are an administrator on your computer. Ensure that you are running NET from an elevated command promptĪre you running NET STOP from a command prompt window? The access denied error will be raised if the prompt does not have sufficient rights to stop the service. But you may be able to get around it! Here are our recommendations: 1.