Find Dependent Services

If you would like to check the implications of stopping  a service, you should have a look at its dependent services:

(Get-Service spooler).DependentServices

Or use Select-Object:

get-service Spooler | Select-Object -expand DependentServices

To stop all dependent services, you can pipe them to Stop-Service:

(Get-Service spooler).DependentServices | Stop-Service -whatif

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