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I just copied/pasted/modified some .vbs stuff to do what I think you needed to get accomplished (I'm posting so others searching may find this answer since I don't think what he actually wanted to do was successfully posted). strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colServiceList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ ("Select * from Win32_Service where Name = 'YourServiceNameHere'") For Each objService in colServiceList objService.ChangeStartMode("Automatic") Wscript.Sleep 5000 errReturnCode = objService.StartService() Next You can set objService.ChangeStartMode mode to Automatic, Manual, or Disabled. YMMV with this, but it worked for me.