Using SC.exe to set service credentials password fails

Question

I know this question has been asked in the past, but a satisfactory answer has not been provided.

I am using the SC command to config the credentials for a service.<

Answer 1

I had this issue. Thanks to ST's comment on the original post, I realized I needed to research how to type the password. In my case, I needed to double up the percent sign (%%) in the password.

The link ST provided is helpful: Escaping special characters in cmd.