Modify Windows Services Configuration

This is mainly for my reference, but I wanted to modify the description associated with some Services in my installation of Windows. I found the following website the most helpful... I am sure there are more:
http://www.opssys.com/instantkb/article.aspx?id=10576&cNode=7G3A2L

I used the following two lines to do what I wanted:
sc query state= all | findstr "DISPLAY_NAME STATE" >svc.txt
sc description {service_name} "description_goes_here"