How to automatically restart a windows service?

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Hi guys,

Is it possible to use FARR to automatically restart the windows audio service? I'm having a problem where I have to restart the service after every 1 or 2 audio files and want to try and automate this a bit more.

Thanks!

[mouser]

First thing would be to find out how to make a batch file to restart the service, then you can easily invoke that batch file from FARR.

[4wd]

Wouldn't it be better to discover why it's necessary to restart the service?

ie.
Is the program playing the files causing the service to screw up?
Try another program.

Is it a hardware or driver fault?
Check the Eventlog.

When the service screws up is it because it has stopped or it is running but still needs a restart?

Really need more info, it's easy to do a small PowerShell script to restart the service if its stopped but where it's still shown as running is probably going to be a little trickier since how would you know if it's being used or not?

EDIT: Can also restart the audio service using a command file, eg.

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sc stop Audiosrv
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 >NUL
sc start Audiosrv

No checks, waits 10 seconds after stopping (ping command 10 times), then starts it.
Could add check for status with sc query Audiosrv but I think it'd be better to find out why it's necessary in the first place.

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When the service screws up is it because it has stopped

-4wd (September 22, 2017, 08:45 PM)

If that's the case, then my NANY 2013 entry KeepUpApp as featured here, could be of interest to you. It won't work if the service isn't responding for any reason though.