sc.exe query writes "The specified service does not exist" to stdout
when the service is missing, so checking truthy on its output was
useless — it always took the update branch and silently failed when
piped to Out-Null. Switch to Get-Service which returns $null cleanly,
and stop swallowing sc.exe output so missing-service / permission /
account errors actually surface as PowerShell errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
justin
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