My VS2005 knows about ServiceController.Start() and Stop() ... of course you need to add: a reference to System.ServiceProcess and an Imports System.ServiceProcess line :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] This month's tips: - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google; - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get; - use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.