Start and Stop Docker Deamon by Windows Commandline

[mdessel (M.Dessel@web.de)]

Hello everyone, I’m currently trying to get started with Docker, and I’m using Windows 11 as my operating system. I have installed Docker for Windows version v4.24.2. I now want to be able to start and stop my Docker daemon from the command line. In a tutorial, I saw that this is done using the commands “sudo systemctl stop docker” and “sudo systemctl start docker.” Unfortunately, these commands don’t work in the Windows command line. I would appreciate it if someone could assist me with this.

Thanks for your help
manfred

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

@mdessel

In a tutorial, I saw that this is done using the commands “sudo systemctl stop docker” and “sudo systemctl start docker.” Unfortunately, these commands don’t work in the Windows command line.

Those commands are for docker-ce, which is only available for Linux.

This should work in a Powershell terminal:

Get-Process "Docker Desktop" | Stop-Process

[mdessel (M.Dessel@web.de)]

Thank you very much, that works well, but how do I start the deamon from command-line?