[wix-users] Stop & Start Services

[Edwin Castro]

What do you mean by "ServiceControl element, it lets me stop and start
immediately"? ServiceControl has attributes that let you control when the
StartServices and StopServices standard actions will start/stop the given
service.

Manish is suggesting that if StartServices/StopServices/ServiceControl does
not give you the behavior you want, which we assume is the case since
you're asking the question, then you can simply use a custom action to call
net start/stop or the powershell equivalent to start/stop the services.
Using your own custom action allows you to schedule it exactly when you
want.

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Edwin G. Castro


On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Ven H via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Thank you. But I am looking for more clarity. If I have to ServiceControl
> element, it lets me stop and start immediately, but not stop during
> beginning of installation and start at the end of installation. This is
> what I am looking for.
>
> Regards,
> Venkatesh
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:17 PM, <duggal_sunny at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > You could use net stop or PowerShell support for Start/Stop Service.
> > However, do note that service start/stop is usually an elevated action.
> > This means you need to use custom action within InstallInitialize and
> > InstallFinalize phases.
> >
> > Thx
> > Manish
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Jun 20, 2018, at 5:09 AM, Ven H via wix-users <
> > wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a way to *stop *services (not just one) at the *beginning *of
> > > installation and *start* them again at the *end *of installation using
> > > ServiceControl element? If not ServiceControl element, what are the
> other
> > > options? Please help.
> > >
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