Many times when going from demo to development to client demo, we are always starting and stopping our SQL Server services on the laptop very often. This can be a pain when you have to constantly go through the configuration manager. I have taken some common code and put into two batch files for your example. The code for the batch files will start all of your services and then there is a second file that will stop them. The code is as follows <Start Services File> NET START "MsSqlServer" NET START "SQL Server Agent (MsSqlServer)" NET START "MsSqlServerOlapService" NET START "ReportServer" NET START "SQL Server Integration Services" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Stop Services File> NET STOP "SQL Server Agent (MsSqlServer)" NET STOP "MsSqlServer" NET STOP "MsSqlServerOlapService" NET STOP "ReportServer" NET STOP "SQL Server Integration Services" I hope this helps streamline something in your day ! As always please post your questions to the BIDN forums.