A resposta do Grawity é certamente útil, mas encontrei uma diferença fundamental entre esses comandos detalhados no link . Em particular, esta página observa que esses dois comandos diferem em seu tempo : "net" é síncrono e "sc" é assíncrono.
SC sends the control to the service and then returns to the command
prompt. This typically results in SC START returning the service in a
state of START_PENDING. NET START will wait for the service it is
starting to come to a fully started state before it returns control at
the command prompt.
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[L]ike SC START, SC STOP does not wait for the service to come to a stop
and will there for often return STOP_PENDING for many service stop
operations. NET STOP on the other hand will wait on the service to stop
before it returns to the command prompt.
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NET and SC have different ideas of what they consider to be
success conditions. The question SC asks to determine if it was
successful is, “Did I successfully send a stop control to the
service?” If it did, regardless of whether the service stopped, then
I satisfied the successful condition. NET asks the question, “Did the
service I attempted to stop, return that it stopped successfully?” If
it did, then it satisfied the condition. If it didn’t, no matter what
the reason, then NET fails the successful condition