For something I am working on, I need to be able to stop and start the Dhcp Client service. However, when I attempt to do so through elevated command prompt I am greeted with System error 5 has occurred and Access is denied. I believe the error is caused when Windows tries to stop the WinHttpAutoProxySvc since that is one of its dependencies. To my knowledge, this is seemed to be a problem while back in 2018 so I am wondering if this is still not fixed. Discussion: . Please correct me and let me know if this is intentional and not an error that needs to be fixed. If so, what am I missing in order to disable the Dhcp Client service?

Stopping the DHCP Client service will also stop these services.

   IP Helper
   WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service
   Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup
   Network List Service
   Network Location Awareness

Do you want to continue this operation? (Y/N) [N]: y
The IP Helper service is stopping.
The IP Helper service was stopped successfully.

System error 5 has occurred.

Access is denied.