WMIService is a powerful UDF if you are comfortable manipulating the WMI service commands. WMISvcMgr puts an easy to use wrapper around most of the common service functions (ListAll, Status, start/stop, modify, & remove). An old version is here on Korg and the latest on the resources page of my web site. Both of these are used for service control and management.

WMIQuery allows you to make simple queries. It's good for one-off queries or testing, but performance suffers if you need to make many queries, since it instantiates a new pointer each call.

Glenn
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