Hi all, Using Tim Golden's wmi module you can get the service names
import wmi c = wmi.WMI () stopped_services = c.Win32_Service (StartMode="Auto", State="Stopped") if stopped_services: for s in stopped_services: print s.Caption, "service is not running" else: print "No auto services stopped" http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html#automatic_services but how do i start services that are stopped? Cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list