I get True. Also, I get True for the IsServiceRunning. But I get False for the StopService and StartService. I confirmed that the service did not stop with the StopService. BTW, I am on a XP machine at the moment.

>Is "IISAdmin" correct name of the service? What do get from

? oShell.CanStartStopService("IISAdmin")

>?
>>Actually, I do too. But I am having trouble getting the ServiceStop and ServiceStart to work as expected.
>>
>>

>>oShell = CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Application")
>>if oShell.IsServiceRunning("IISAdmin")
>>   ? oShell.ServiceStop("IISAdmin", .F.)
>>endif
>>? oShell.ServiceStart("IISAdmin", .F.)
>>

>>
>>Am I doing it right?
>>