Restarting a windows service using VBScript

Rudy du Plooy

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2 Mar 2010CPOL

Set oshell = createobject(Wscript.Shell) oshell.runcmd.exe wscript.sleep 500 oshell.sendkeys net stop Your service name here+({Enter}) wscript.sleep 5000 oshell.sendkeys net start Your service name here+({Enter}) wscript.sleep 5000 ...

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Set oshell = createobject("Wscript.Shell")
   oshell.run"cmd.exe"
   wscript.sleep 500
   oshell.sendkeys "net stop ""Your service name here"""+("{Enter}")
   wscript.sleep 5000
   oshell.sendkeys "net start ""Your service name here"""+("{Enter}")
   wscript.sleep 5000
   oshell.sendkeys "exit"+("{Enter}")

   set oshell = nothing

   WScript.Quit

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