Halt batch file until service stop is complete?

Question

I\'m using a batch file to stop a Windows service. I\'m using the sc command, but I\'m open to other ideas, given the question below. The problem is that the

Answer 1

sc stop webdriveservice
:loop
sc query webdriveservice | find "STOPPED"
if errorlevel 1 (
  timeout 1
  goto loop
)