>What is the proper way of stopping a service? If I do Stop, this generates two errors in the Event Viewer. So, obviously, this is not the proper way of doing that. Anyone has done that from the code?

Here's some code I use:

public static void StopService(string serviceName, int timeoutSeconds)

{
    using (ServiceController controller = new ServiceController(serviceName))
    {
        try
        {
            controller.Stop();
            controller.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeoutSeconds));
        }
        catch (InvalidOperationException ex)
        {
            // Service may already be stopped
        }
    }            
}