Stopping/Starting Windows services

Question

I have four Windows services which start up automatically when the machine starts. Thereafter, I want to restart those services every 8 hours in a particular order.

e.g. Stop s1,s2,s3,s4 and than restart them in some other order like s4,s3,s2,s1. The condition is that I should wait for each service to stop completely before I stop another one.

I would want to write a .BAT or some script. Is it possible to define a scheduled task for 8 hours? This is not there in Advanced tasks. Can I do it using Windows Task Scheduler?

Answer 1

In a batch file:

net stop service4
net stop service3
net stop service2

net start service2
net start service3
net start service4

Assuming you are using xp/2003 or above you could create a scheduled task to run the batch file. Assuming you want to repeat the task every 8 hours, pick a time for it to run, then on the properties of the scheduled task, schedule tab > advanced... > repeat task. Change it to repeat every 8 hours.