Simplest way to restart service on a remote computer

Question

What\'s the easiest programmatic way to restart a service on a remote Windows system? Language or method doesn\'t matter as long as it doesn\'t require human interaction.

Answer 1

1. open service control manager database using openscmanager
2. get dependent service using EnumDependService()
3. Stop all dependent services using ChangeConfig() sending STOP signal to this function if they are started
4. stop actual service
5. Get all Services dependencies of a service
6. Start all services dependencies using StartService() if they are stopped
7. Start actual service

Thus your service is restarted taking care all dependencies.