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[Hardeep]

WinServ function can be used to start, stop or query(running status) a windows service on local or a remote computer. Dialogs provide visual feedback when starting/stopping a service or when an error occurs. Usage documentation is included in the library.

Download WinServ.ahk v1.0 (This file can be directly copied to the library.)



Example Usage:
Caution: Executing the following code will start/stop the specified services on your system.

[n-l-i-d]

Very nice!

[corrupt]

Cool . Thanks

[Hardeep]

Thanks guys! Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Will share some more useful functions soon...

[PhiLho]

I really appreciated this function!
I come back from holidays, my boss ask me to automatically install a Tomcat Java application, which needs to stop and start the Apache Tomcat service.
I search the forum... and here is your script!
Very handy.

The only problem is that you use the Progress command unconditionally, just to display some messages. It ruins my larger script which has a global progress bar (do this, start service, do that).
I suggest to use a GUI instead: more work, but it would better fit as function.
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[Hardeep]

[WhoAmIAgain?]

Thanks for this function, I have a antivirus that may work great but it uses 3 processes and a good chunk of my memory. Using this function I made a quick .exe that turns on everything it needs to run, or in 1 click jump through all the hoops it takes to disable the thing.


Why does Avira demand a 10 MB process just to check for updates once a day? *shakes his head*

[Gauss]

Thanks Hardeep
Very useful, is it possible to set the service status to disabled and manual too?

Edit:

I found it out

[jasonwills]

This is a great function - thankyou for it.

i have used the following code:

^!I::
If WinServ("ServiceName")
{
WinServ("ServiceName", False, True)
}
Else
{
WinServ("ServiceName", True, True)
}

this works great - however, i would like at the press of Ctrl + Alt+ I to toggle multiple services not just "ServiceName" anyone know of an easy way of doing this, thanks for any help in advance.

Jason

[Deep-Silence]

Try this code to hide the commandline window

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[Aero98]

I use this code a lot for stopping and starting our SQL service for some automated backup routines, works 100% no errors, love it. Thanks for sharing.
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[hmlnarik]

Thanks a lot for the code which I found very useful!

When using 64-bit version of AutoHotKey, it unfortunatelly does not work. There are two issues: 64-bit AHK seems to use wide-strings internally so all ANSI DLL calls should be replaced by their wide equivalents. Further, the original script counts on getting values via NumGet that by default works with 32-bit values. 64-bit version of AHK however works with 64-bit numbers thus it spoils result codes, hence result type must be specified explicitly in NumGet calls.

Here is my fix, feel free to use it if you find it handy.

[fragman]

Does anyone know how to enumerate the installed services and query description etc. ?

[pajenn]

thanks for the update. works for me on a 32-bit system as well after the original script stopped working after I switched to the unicode version of AHK.