How to stop and restart Audio Service using a batch file?

Question

I made a batch file with the following line

net stop audiosrv & net start audiosrv

It just flashes and closes, not actually doing the command. I think I saw something about administrator privileges in the command window but it flashed too fast to tell. What is wrong?

Solution 1

Create a new text file. Then, paste the following code into it.

@echo off     
net stop audiosrv    
pause    
net start audiosrv    
pause  

Save the file as a bat file. Open the bat file as admin.

Solution 2

Here find a script for running a batch file as an admin

@echo off  

if not "%1"=="am_admin" (powershell start -verb runas '%0' am_admin & exit /b)   
net stop audiosrv    
pause    
net start audiosrv    
pause

Solution 3

A more comprehensive batch file approach:

@echo off  

if not "%1"=="am_admin" (powershell start -verb runas '%0' am_admin & exit /b)   
net stop audiosrv    
pause    
net stop AudioEndpointBuilder
pause    
net start AudioEndpointBuilder
pause    
net start audiosrv    
pause

Solution 4

The audio service is started by Windows using local system account and therefore it is not possible to stop this service without administrator privileges as command net outputs.

The solution is clicking with right (secondary) mouse button on batch file and click with left (primary) mouse button in context menu on Run as Administrator as Magoo already suggested before.

For testing a batch file just created, it is always useful to open a command prompt window and run the batch file from within this window by entering name (with path if needed) and hitting RETURN. A shortcut for opening a command prompt window can be found in Accessories menu of Windows start menu, or the command cmd.exe is executed which also opens a console window.

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Comments

[Bhargav Rao]

Hi, do add a bit of explanation along with the code as it helps to understand your code. Code only answers are frowned upon.

[serup]

I have noticed that if you have fx. "Lenovo Hotkey Client Loader", then trying to stop windows audio will result in a pop-up dialog asking for confirmation to stop other services -- any chance you know how to force them to stop ?