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How to schedule a service to stop using vbscript

I am trying to create a script that will create a scheduled job that will stop a windows service. I know that I can use schtasks, but am having difficulties when the executable requires parameters. I have been trying to use NET STOP in order to stop the service. I know that I could alternatelyuse SC.exe STOP, but both require the service name as a parameter and in many cases the service name contains spaces.

How can I make this work?

Set objShell= WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strTask =  "schtasks /create /tn ""Stop_WWW" /tr ""net stop ""World Wide Web Publishing"""" /sc minute /mo 5 /ru System"
objShell.Run strTask,2,true

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johnb6767

Net stop "Symantec Antivirus"

All you need to do.... Use Quotes......

johnb6767

And I do apologize, I know you asked for a VB method, but since I dont script, I thought I would offer the next best, and easierst alternative fix to your dilemna....

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johnb6767

Actually, I was referring to simple DOS, not VBS.. Should have clarified.... That applies to the SC method as well.....

sc stop "Symantec AntiVirus"

skeider

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Thanks to all for their assistance.

I realized that my issue was with the embedded quotes, but could not figure out the proper syntax. I had tried single quotes around the service. This created the task successfully, but the task would fail. I finally found out (after much frustration and too many hours) that the inner quotes needed to be escaped with a slash. Final syntax located below...

strTask = "schtasks /create /tn ""Stop_WWW"" /tr ""net stop \""World Wide Web Publishing\"""" /sc once /st 23:00:00 /ru System"