activate a service from a desktop shortcut?

[leegold2]

Is there a way to activate a service from a desktop shortcut?

EG. I sometimes play with Oracle Express DB but usually have the service turned off because it's a memory hog. It would be nice if there was a way to turn the Oracle service on from the desktop.

 

[wolluf]

try psservice - part of pstools from

http://www.sysinternals.com

 

[mlconley]

I love PS tools, but you can simply create a new shortcut and in the location field type net start "my net service" or net start myNetService using quotes for service names with spaces.