>Hi Gang!
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>How do you go about turning a service OFF in VFP ( by using code ). And.... turn a Service back On ???

If you can use a CMD window, you can use the NET START/STOP etc. commands: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736564%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

Without having to shell out to a CMD window, the best bet might be WMI. I believe there are users here experienced with using WMI from VFP. Here's a Google result that uses VBScript, the calls are probably translatable to VFP: http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/vbscript/wmi_services.htm

Any method you end up using will require elevated privileges to run on current versions of Windows.