Start or Stop Window Services using Batch file in Vista/XP/2003/2000

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Many times people forget what the services do or forget to restart the important ones. Services can be easily changed by creating batch files.

The important commands are the following

NET START - starts the service
NET STOP - ends the service

Before starting this we need to make sure which service you want to start or stop.

Go to Start—>Run type services.msc click ok

Once you get the services windows you can see each service name.

Stop Window Services using Batch file

The following one is just example

First you need to open a notepad enter the following commands and save as stopservice.bat

NET STOP “Error Reporting Service”
NET STOP “FTP Publishing Service”
NET STOP “Messenger”

The above commands stop the following services

“Error Reporting Service”
“FTP Publishing Service”
“Messenger”

The same way you need to start the services using the following procedure you need to open a notepad enter the following commands and save as startservice.bat

NET START “Error Reporting Service”
NET START “FTP Publishing Service”
NET START “Messenger”

The above commands start the following services

“Error Reporting Service”
“FTP Publishing Service”
“Messenger”