Start/Stop Services and using it

[Foofy]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here

Today as I cleaned a bit my computer, I saw that iTunes created 3 services which always started on boot. Since my computer isn't a high end nor a recent one, I decided to stop these services and start them only when needed : while using iTunes.

So I share it here and hope it will be useful to others. (The start/stop services code wasn't quit easy to find )

1) Start a service

$sSvcName = 'ServiceName'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc start "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)

2) Stop a service

$sSvcName = 'ServiceName'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc stop "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)

3) And using it on iTunes

TrayTip('Starting iTunes...','', 5)
$sSvcName = 'Apple Mobile Device'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc start "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)
$sSvcName = 'iPod Service'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc start "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)
$sSvcName = 'Bonjour Service'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc start "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)

Sleep(500)
TraySetState(2)
RunWait(@ScriptDir&'\iTunes.exe')

$sSvcName = 'Apple Mobile Device'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc stop "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)
$sSvcName = 'iPod Service'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc stop "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)
$sSvcName = 'Bonjour Service'
RunWait(@ComSpec & " /c " & 'sc stop "' & $sSvcName & '"', "", @SW_HIDE)

Save this script in C:\Program Files\iTunes !

Remember : Before using this script, stop the following services and set their startup on manual : (run -> services.msc)

Apple Mobile Device

iPod Service

Bonjour Service

Now, start this autoit script instead of iTunes.exe

It works perfectly on my iTunes 9.0.3.15

-Foofy

Edited March 18, 2010 by Foofy

[bo8ster]

Good script Footy, thanks. This may come in handy if I every have to use it. It can sit in the startup directory.

For future reference scripts like this go in the Example Scripts section however I think you need at least 10 posts to post there anyway.

[Dead]

Thank you Big Help