Victor

I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts with my
accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue to use TrueImage
therefore I dissable this service in the morning and enable it at the end of
the day so it will create a scheduled image backup at night.

Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at a certain
time of day?

Shenan Stanley

Victor wrote:
> I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts
> with my accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue
> to use TrueImage therefore I dissable this service in the morning
> and enable it at the end of the day so it will create a scheduled
> image backup at night.
>
> Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at
> a certain time of day?

Scheduled tasks - perhaps that calls a batch script with "net stop" for
stopping the service in question and "net start" for starting the service.
(Two scheduled tasks.)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Victor

Thanks, but I'm not familiar with writing a batch script. Could you advise.

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Victor wrote:
> > I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts
> > with my accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue
> > to use TrueImage therefore I dissable this service in the morning
> > and enable it at the end of the day so it will create a scheduled
> > image backup at night.
> >
> > Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at
> > a certain time of day?
>
> Scheduled tasks - perhaps that calls a batch script with "net stop" for
> stopping the service in question and "net start" for starting the service.
> (Two scheduled tasks.)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Shenan Stanley

Victor wrote:
> I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts
> with my accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue
> to use TrueImage therefore I dissable this service in the morning
> and enable it at the end of the day so it will create a scheduled
> image backup at night.
>
> Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at
> a certain time of day?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Scheduled tasks - perhaps that calls a batch script with "net
> stop" for stopping the service in question and "net start" for
> starting the service. (Two scheduled tasks.)

Victor wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm not familiar with writing a batch script. Could
> you advise.

Open notepad, create your 'script' and save it as "whatever.bat" or
"whatever.cmd". The fact the file extension is .bat or .cmd makes it into a
batch script.

Open a command prompt (start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK) and type in:

net start

and press enter and see what the service you are looking to stop/start is
called in that list.

Inside a batch script, the line:

net stop "Service Name"

Will stop the service when the batch script is ran.
(You can probably guess the start line. ;-) )

If you google for any of that (including 'scheduled task in Windows XP') -
you should be able to set up the rest. ;-)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Victor

Thanks, that's great. But now for the scheduling part. When I go to create
a scheduled task it only lets me select .exe program files. How can I select
a .bat file?

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Victor wrote:
> > I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts
> > with my accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue
> > to use TrueImage therefore I dissable this service in the morning
> > and enable it at the end of the day so it will create a scheduled
> > image backup at night.
> >
> > Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at
> > a certain time of day?
>
> Shenan Stanley wrote:
> > Scheduled tasks - perhaps that calls a batch script with "net
> > stop" for stopping the service in question and "net start" for
> > starting the service. (Two scheduled tasks.)
>
> Victor wrote:
> > Thanks, but I'm not familiar with writing a batch script. Could
> > you advise.
>
> Open notepad, create your 'script' and save it as "whatever.bat" or
> "whatever.cmd". The fact the file extension is .bat or .cmd makes it into a
> batch script.
>
> Open a command prompt (start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK) and type in:
>
> net start
>
> and press enter and see what the service you are looking to stop/start is
> called in that list.
>
> Inside a batch script, the line:
>
> net stop "Service Name"
>
> Will stop the service when the batch script is ran.
> (You can probably guess the start line. ;-) )
>
> If you google for any of that (including 'scheduled task in Windows XP') -
> you should be able to set up the rest. ;-)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>

Shenan Stanley

Victor wrote:
> I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts
> with my accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue
> to use TrueImage therefore I dissable this service in the morning
> and enable it at the end of the day so it will create a scheduled
> image backup at night.
>
> Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at
> a certain time of day?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Scheduled tasks - perhaps that calls a batch script with "net
> stop" for stopping the service in question and "net start" for
> starting the service. (Two scheduled tasks.)

Victor wrote:
> Thanks, but I'm not familiar with writing a batch script. Could
> you advise.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Open notepad, create your 'script' and save it as "whatever.bat" or
> "whatever.cmd". The fact the file extension is .bat or .cmd makes
> it into a batch script.
>
> Open a command prompt (start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK) and
> type in:
>
> net start
>
> and press enter and see what the service you are looking to
> stop/start is called in that list.
>
> Inside a batch script, the line:
>
> net stop "Service Name"
>
> Will stop the service when the batch script is ran.
> (You can probably guess the start line. ;-) )
>
> If you google for any of that (including 'scheduled task in Windows
> XP') - you should be able to set up the rest. ;-)

Victor wrote:
> Thanks, that's great. But now for the scheduling part. When I go
> to create a scheduled task it only lets me select .exe program
> files. How can I select a .bat file?

Thus why I mentioned Google. ;-)

Example:
A Google search with the text: how do I create a scheduled task in Windows
XP using a batch script

Results in:
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+d...a+batch+script

Where one of the first results is:
How to use the Windows Task Scheduler
http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm

Where the specifically say (in #1), "If you do not find "your" program in
this list, simply select any other program. You can always change the
settings later and, for example, point it to a batch file (*.bat) or Windows
Script (*.vbs)."; and then they explain how to use the advanced settings to
do just that.

Also - during #1 - you could just browse and put *.* for the filename and it
will show ALL files - not just "programs".

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Victor

Thanks for your help. This is great!

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

> Victor wrote:
> > I have a service association with Acronis TrueImage that conflicts
> > with my accounting software Business Vision. I want to continue
> > to use TrueImage therefore I dissable this service in the morning
> > and enable it at the end of the day so it will create a scheduled
> > image backup at night.
> >
> > Is there anyway I can automatically disable/enable this service at
> > a certain time of day?
>
> Shenan Stanley wrote:
> > Scheduled tasks - perhaps that calls a batch script with "net
> > stop" for stopping the service in question and "net start" for
> > starting the service. (Two scheduled tasks.)
>
> Victor wrote:
> > Thanks, but I'm not familiar with writing a batch script. Could
> > you advise.
>
> Shenan Stanley wrote:
> > Open notepad, create your 'script' and save it as "whatever.bat" or
> > "whatever.cmd". The fact the file extension is .bat or .cmd makes
> > it into a batch script.
> >
> > Open a command prompt (start button --> RUN --> CMD --> OK) and
> > type in:
> >
> > net start
> >
> > and press enter and see what the service you are looking to
> > stop/start is called in that list.
> >
> > Inside a batch script, the line:
> >
> > net stop "Service Name"
> >
> > Will stop the service when the batch script is ran.
> > (You can probably guess the start line. ;-) )
> >
> > If you google for any of that (including 'scheduled task in Windows
> > XP') - you should be able to set up the rest. ;-)
>
> Victor wrote:
> > Thanks, that's great. But now for the scheduling part. When I go
> > to create a scheduled task it only lets me select .exe program
> > files. How can I select a .bat file?
>
> Thus why I mentioned Google. ;-)
>
> Example:
> A Google search with the text: how do I create a scheduled task in Windows
> XP using a batch script
>
> Results in:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=how+d...a+batch+script
>
> Where one of the first results is:
> How to use the Windows Task Scheduler
> http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
>
> Where the specifically say (in #1), "If you do not find "your" program in
> this list, simply select any other program. You can always change the
> settings later and, for example, point it to a batch file (*.bat) or Windows
> Script (*.vbs)."; and then they explain how to use the advanced settings to
> do just that.
>
> Also - during #1 - you could just browse and put *.* for the filename and it
> will show ALL files - not just "programs".
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>
>