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[beardboy]

Would it be possible to add the ability to Add, Edit, Delete, Query, Start, Stop NT Services?

thanks,
beardboy

[Jon]

I currently use net start and net stop to start and stop services using AHK.

syntax
NET START [service]
NET STOP [service]
NET PAUSE [service]
NET CONTINUE [service]

key
[service] : The service name as shown in Control Panel, Services

[Chris]

[beardboy]

I use both net start and net stop, as well as a 3rd party tool sc.exe that lets you start and stop services on Remote computers. I could always use %comspec% to do most of the AHK FileXXX commands. I could also use a 3rd party tool named reg.exe to modify the registry on local and Remote computers instead of using AHK RegXXX commands.

[Chris]

Of course, you're right that there are a lot of features built in that have 3rd part or OS alternatives. My previous post was inaccurate and badly written.

Anyway, I will add it to the list. For future reference, these are the criteria I use to determine the priority of feature requests:

- What percentage of users would be expected to use the feature.
- How much value the feature adds (and this considers the availability built-in OS features and/or 3rd party utilities).
- How hard it is to implement.

This feature scores low on the first two but probably not too bad on the last. Usually when a low-scoring feature is requested, I try to avoid putting it on the list at all because realistically it would be months before I got to it (unless someone else codes it).

I will try to publish the highest priority list items soon so there is visibility of what is planned. A visible list might also help justify my shameful reluctance to claim that things are going on the list

[Jon]

Being able to kill a process by it's file name e.g. notepad.exe would be useful. I found something called taskkill but it doesn't seem to work on XP home (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/taskkill.mspx)

Thanks, Jon

[beardboy]

Rkill that I is described at http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=95 works with process name or process ID.

thanks,
beardboy

[Chris]

Support for acting upon processes is planned, though once again it's not something commonly used. That's why things such as better auto-replace, hot strings, and snazzy progress bars take precedence.

[beardboy]