service auto start/stop

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Anyone know how to schedule a service to start and stop at certain times of the day? I want to start a service in the morning, and have it shut off for a few hours at night while the data is backed up. I’m using Firedaemon to make an app a service.

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Task scheduler should do what you want on a local computer:
How”]Q235536 Task Scheduler Service on Windows NT

For remote services:
Using”]Winmag2000 forum, and a pictorial example here.

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Thanks. While any one of those KB’s wasn’t a complete solution, they did, as a trio, hint at a solution. This was a forehead slapper

For posterity I’ll post what I did.

Remember LanMan? Well I used the “net” commands here. I created two batch files, netstart.bat and netstop.bat.

NetStart.bat=
net start {“service name”}

Net Stop.bat =
net stop {“service name”}

Then I used task scheduler, included with IE 4.0 and up (does not exist in NT 4 natively), to run those batch files when I want to stop and start the service.

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