Stopping/Starting a remote Windows service and waiting for it to open/close

Question

The top answer to this question tells me how to stop/start a remote service. Great. Now, all I need is to wait for the actual stop/start to complete. So, what I\'m looking f

Answer 1

Eric Falsken's solution works perfectly. +1.

But I'd like to add that the timeout command would sometimes fail with error: "Input redirection is not supported, exiting the process immediately"

To fix this I've had to replace the timeout command:

timeout /t 2 /nobreak >NUL

with the following:

ping -n 2 127.0.0.1  1>NUL