>>>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 ???
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>>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
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>>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
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>>Any method you end up using will require elevated privileges to run on current versions of Windows.
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>You saying that as they run the program, everytime that the service is shut down or started, they will have the permissions popup stop them to ask permission to continue ?

Your program has to have sufficient privileges to start/stop services. The account you run it under, by default, may not. In that case you may have to provide credentials (user name/password) for an account that has enough privileges (e.g. local administrator account). This may be referred to as "impersonation" in things like function parameters, object properties etc.