Alan,

See http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/windows-service-status on how to control Windows services through Shell Application object

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>Within a .prg program, I wish to stop the print-spooler using the following command...
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>RUN net stop "print spooler"
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>This works fine, but I get a DOS command window appearing for a brief time (less than a second). Is there any way can hide this window?