On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:42:57 -0800, T wrote:
> In which case, if you decide to respond to the OP's question,
> look up the google search links and give them to him.
> This helps a lot when the poster has already been searching
> on the wrong search terms.

I listed the Google search in my second paragraph.

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On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 04:03:35 -0400, Wally J wrote:
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote
>
> > But Windows 10 needs an admin command prompt, as I quickly found by
> > experimentation, so I'll bet dollars to donuts Windows 11 does also.
>
> With all due respects, Stan, it's worse than you seem to be aware of.
> Please don't respond until you actually try it WITHOUT reading my tutorial!
> *You _will_ fail*

[shrugs] I _did_ try it before posting, and it worked fine for me.

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On Mon, 1 Jan 2024 12:55:18 -0800, Stan Brown wrote:
> it worked fine for me.

Thank you for all your help. Over the weekend I had time to comb through
all the suggestions and I implemented every suggestion that was made.

The task bar icon (and run command and Windows batch command and task bar
menu command) tests if the service is running which is helpful because I
don't have to know ahead of time whether it's running or not and then it
will either turn the service on (if it's not running) or off (if it is).

The task bar icon (and all the associated ways of running it) also does
nothing if it's already running and I want to turn it in (or vice versa).
There's no way a search would have found all that I ended up doing to
add the command in all the places that make it easy to run it later.

I don't think even fifty searches would have found everything in this
thread as I'd have to have known all the keywords (like app paths) first.

Only one poster pieced it all together but everyone helped and over the
weekend I had time off to run the tests and it's working wonderfully!

Thank you all for your help in making this work great. Happy New Year!

On 2 Jan 2024 16:02:12 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

>> I listed the Google search in my second paragraph.
>
> I think 'T' means the URLs found by the search. Note he says "links"
> (plural), but a search URL is a single one.

Thank you for your help. As I replied to Stan, I don't think even fifty
searches would have found everything in this thread as I'd have to have
known all the keywords (like app paths) first and I'd have to know that
pinning a shortcut to run as an admin is different than a regular shortcut
and the batch shortcuts are also different when pinned than non batch ones.

But it's all working now with a lot of easy ways to run it and it tests the
status before doing anything and all of that is done with a single click.

A wonderful bonus is this process should work for any Windows service,
which is where having the name being the command for each one is useful.

Happy New Year!