How to query the execution path of a service (PowerShell)

Sometime you have to kill a process related to a service. To identify the process it is necessary to know the underlying service executable.

Below you will find a small guide (using PowerShell), demonstrating how I managed to do this for Adobe's Update Service.

$service = adobe
Get-WmiObject win32_service | ?{$_.Name -like '*$service*'} | select Name, DisplayName, State, PathName