I will try it at home on my Win2K machine later.

>I dunno why it cannot stop IISAdmin service. I use it to start and stop a local instance of SQL Server on my PC w/o any problem.
>
>>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?
>>>>