Start a disable service

[Netman06]

Hello,

I would like to know if anyone has started a disabled service.

I have researched it, found you can start a stopped service, change the service startmode. but nothing on starting a disable service. also you can not change the startmode of a disabled service?

I know that Microsoft did this because of spammer and hackers, but I have aministrator account and password. I thought I could you a runas.

Thanks for any help, as I have been having trouble finding a solutions.

The service I would to enable is Windows Messenger, I have another vbs script that I can send message to workstation and have user call me.

I have been tasked to find or locate many workstations, I found this would be a way of doing it without installing anything on these workstations, when done I can again disable this service.

Mike

 

[onpnt]

why would you need to use messenger to find workstations? Do you have he workstations names? You've already pointed out why the service is off by default and in a stable and secure domain should stay that way. you should search your domain for them then using LDAP or WinNT depending on if you are a NT or AD domain

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[serializer]

Just use WMI to change the service startmode.