Modifying Windows Services

I am an advanced Windows user (been working as a Windows network system administrator for a few years), but one thing I've never learned is how to edit the properties for services.

I know where to find each service in the registry, but there are a couple of services I'd like to modify and I'd like to know if there's a tool anyone knows of that can help. If you can tell mehow to do it manually, that'd be fine as well.

I'll be more specific: among other reasons, I ran the mysqld executable with the --install option. If you specify a name after the option, that name will be used as the service name. For example:

The above command will install MySQL as a service and name it "MySQL v4.0.15". There is a problem with this: it also created the command for the service as "C:\Program Files\MySQL\bin\mysqld" "MySQL 4.0.15" which will not work.

I can fix this problem fine in the registry, but it got me wondering if such a tool exists that could help in editing services. If anyone has any useful input, I'd greatly appreciate it. In the mean-time, if I find out the answer to my own question I will post it here.

Take a look at sc.exe. It is a command line tool that allows you to start, stop, create, delete, and configure services. There are versions available for NT, 2000, and XP. It is installed by default on XP. The XP version can be used on 2K. The XP/2K version will not work on NT. NT has its own version available in the NT
Resource Kit. The NT version will also work on 2K and XP

Do a search for "create service sc.exe" on google and you will get several relevant links that provide useful information.