programmatically bounce a service

Question

We have a 3rd program program that appears to have some sort of an issue that requires that it be bounced regularly, say, every 2 days.

How can we do this programmatically?

Answer 1

You can do this with a PowerShell script:

Restart-Service "YourServiceName"

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Answer 2

You could run a scheduled task that runs a batch file which contains:

net.exe stop "service name"
net.exe start "service name"