To prevent PingAccess from starting automatically on a Windows Server, the associated Windows Service must be removed. PingAccess provides a specific batch script for this purpose. The uninstall-service.bat command, located in the /bin directory, unregisters the PingAccess service from the Windows Service Control Manager. Once the service is removed, it can no longer be started automatically by the operating system during boot-up.

A. init.bat: This is not a standard script provided with PingAccess for managing the Windows service. Its function is not related to service installation or removal.

C. remove-install.bat: This is not a valid or documented PingAccess command. There is no such script included in the standard PingAccess distribution for service management.

D. wrapper-service.bat: While this script interacts with the Java Service Wrapper, it is not the primary command intended for administrators. The uninstall-service.bat script is the designated high-level utility that calls the wrapper with the correct parameters for service removal.

1. Ping Identity PingAccess 7.3 Documentation, "Start and stop PingAccess," section "Running PingAccess as a service on Windows."

This official guide explicitly states: "To remove the PingAccess service, run /bin/uninstall-service.bat." This confirms that uninstall-service.bat is the correct command to unregister the service, thereby preventing it from starting automatically.