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Restarting a windows service using VBScript

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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 ...
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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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